https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/...rong-about

This isn't one of the author's 10 things, but it is probably a more important mistake:

"...Mistakes, of course, were inevitable when trying to understand and contain an unfamiliar, complex and highly contagious new virus. But when recurring expert error is coupled with an expectation that the public should mutely maintain an unquestioning faith in the claims of “the data and the science” — as has often been the case during the pandemic — the result may be a severe erosion in the credibility of public health authorities...."

My son lives and works in Tokyo.
Japan didn't shut down.
50-75% of their population wear masks routinely, close to 100% now.
Their rate of cases per million is lower than our rate of deaths per million.

Given a choice between wearing masks and shutting down, I go for masks all the way.

Wear masks, wash your hands (I've washed mine so often that I have dishpan hands), and keep social distancing, and that seems to do the trick.

And it's looking closer and closer to having a cure, and possibly a vaccine. If FDA doesn't get too involved, we may be able to put and end to this.

I've mentioned before that George Friedman has written of a struggle in the USA between elite experts and common sense. CV-19 was the experts' ball game, and they screwed it up royally.