If we had the political will, we would have had weekly mass testing by now. The US has spent trillions to try and keep people afloat when they could have used that money to try and keep people safe by stopping the virus.

A combination of ignorance (throughout society), what seems to be FDA incompetence, and of political games is what is killing the economy and thousands of lives.

There is a pretty large landscape between what the US has done in response and what would have been unconstitutional.

>1) effective

Maybe if the virus is as deadly as anthrax or ebola, but for covid its not worth it.