> That’s why I get so annoyed by the many commentators on the sidelines who, without much insight, criticize the scientists and policymakers trying hard to get the epidemic under control. That’s very unfair.

Do viral epidemiologists have much insight about the effects of economic depression, combined with all-but-unprecedented fear and social isolation, on public health? Do they have any at all? This comes across as incredibly arrogant, and just as unfair.