You can only expect so much from a bunch of bench warmers that are after a cushy, high paying job in the private sector once they jump ship. Most of them don't really want to deal with a crises, they just want to talk crap, offload whatever responsibility they can, while attempting to enforce their own dogma and fundamentals on as many as they can.
I can imagine how hard it would be for people like todays politicians. Big companys in their ear about not shutting down the economy, profits must not go down, vested interests screaming and threatening them. You can see them, sometimes quickly, otherwise slowly depending on how big their balls are, implementing things, but they just cannot bring themselves to do what needs to be done. Not yet. I daresay it will take more death and outrage to make them take that step, and as you say, it will mean more pain overall.
I agree; it has now gone too far, they have allowed too many cases to develop, and with our testing regime at the moment, imagine how many others are only somewhat ill, or not ill at all, carrying someone elses death sentence around. If we keep up the current nonsense, it will possibly be Italy/UK/Spain/Germany within a week or two.
Unfortunately, even when this place is eventually free of it, I can imagine the vested interests that will be screaming for them to open up international travel again. This thing has a ways to go, and I am not certain there won't be a 2.0 because of further weakness.
