Someone said smth similar early COVID-19: if we ‘flatten the curve’ sufficiently it’ll look like we overreacted. While we might think we were foolish, that is far better than the alternative. I hoped that would be true then.

Now I fear it’s the worst of both: we bear so many losses by not overreacting, and many people believe we did overreact. The latter are fighting to make sure next time—whatever disease next time is—we can’t even underreact that much.