I have read through this entire thread and I think it is fascinating. All of you have really brought up some fantastic points. But, I want to throw my two cents in what I think went wrong (and what went right) with the management of this crisis and I will sum it up in one word: communication. Not that there wasn't enough communication just a lot of communication without context. When I was Marine in the 90's the "Old Breed" would complain that our new Marines wanted to know "why"? They wanted to know why so that their effort was justified in their minds. In all but rare occurrences (mostly in immediate combat situations), knowing the "why" has unforeseeable positive consequences. Better ideas are developed when everyone knows the why. The American people need to know the WHY and can't be "because I am the duty expert and I smarter than you with regard to this situation." Nobody in national or state government gave us the why and how they got to those conclusions. Instead, in Ohio, we got statements from Dr. Acton such as "100k Ohioans already have the virus and the morbidity rate is 3% or 4%. Nationally, we had statements that 2M (no mitigation), 100K (with mitigation) dead citizens due to this pandemic. Until recently, Dr. Acton's graph showed that with mitigation we could expect 6k to 8k new cases every day. Then it was reduced to 1.5k new cases every day. However, there was not testing plan in place to prove those numbers. There was no way she was going to able to show that number of confirmed or even projected cases with the way she was testing. Furthermore, there was no official explanation as to where we got these projections nor did there seem to be a concerted effort to correct the model quickly and make the case to the general populace to JUSTIFY the sacrifice that we were/ are being asked to make. Most people will do what the leaders ask in the short run if it brought about as an emergency. But further sacrifice will have to be proved and quite frankly it has not been proved in America and for sure not in Ohio. There is nothing wrong with breaking out the original model and saying "this is why". There is nothing wrong with coming back and saying the data has forced us to rebuild our model and this is what we think will happen. There is nothing wrong with saying we are limited in our testing so this is the data points (hospital admissions and deaths) is what we are looking at to make our decisions There is nothing wrong with saying in the short run: "I don't know but this is what I think and why." But what we cannot have is implied condescension, no admittance that we were wrong and no perspective change based on the little data that we have. In short, our state and federal government have a credibility issue with regard to this pandemic. Think about that: our government has on purpose brought our economy to its knees and now has a credibility issue. Now we are making decisions based on economic necessity and maybe not due to the health considerations and that is not even being admitted too. Let's hope moving forward, out government gives its citizens more credit, explains the why, admits when it was wrong when it is wrong and asks us to do things that can be proven by the data. Right now, a lot of us don't know who to believe or what data is accurate or even what the data means? For example, right now, with the increase in the number of confirmed cases and no context as to why would any of you open up the economy or would you open up the economy assuming the stay at home order has not worked?