Again, there's no reason that going to bars and restaurants while exercising sensible precautions is going to cause the US to go the way of Italy. The Italians were caught completely flatfooted and have a very old population.
As to your second point, I'm not sure you realise what a hand to mouth existence (no pun intended) many service businesses like restaurants live. For many of them they're coming to the end of the slowest season and their resources are probably at their lowest - a month without custom can easily put them under and that's not because they're badly run.
The disease is insanely contagious and the only places that have had legit outbreaks that were quashed basically declared a state of law. Considering how badly the US dropped the ball on testing preparedness and diagnosis nobody even has a realistic idea of how many people have the disease.
If the US had done excrement fairly competently maybe you'd have a point. But as is essentially nobody has been tested and it's a crap shot. A week ago I agreed with you 100% on this. Now I'm thinking that while the United States is playing catchup on what it should have done a month or two ago, they need to start coming up with a contingency plan if that fails. And to me that means at least coming up with a fleshed out plan of Marshall law to keep in their back pocket.
And just for perspective the surgeons general reccomended that all elective surgeries in the country be canceled. If it's too dangerous a climate to do heart surgery or whatever people need, then you think maybe it might be a little risky to have people bar crawling and what not?
