In order for it to be a calamity, it would have had to have been the imprudent, reckless thing to do. But just the opposite is true; it was the correct and prudent thing to do with potentially millions of lives at very real risk. What does the liberal media like Yahoo News think happened during the Spanish Flu?

Do they understand that we here in the 21st century are every bit as vulnerable to a novel virus as they were back then ? Lacking information and immunity, the ONLY thing a population can do is social distance; lacking a treatment or a vaccine, there is no magic shield that gets thrown around us as mammals facing a virus just because we live now and not in the 11th century.

If this had hit before the internet, we would have been even more screwed since even more of the economy would have been forced under and the required logistics- getting food and supplies to people- would have entailed even more risky behavior on the part of everyone.