Slow building fact introduced momentum for asking why we are still in full lock down mode?

Hindsight is 20/20 and the panic and fear that people are fearing "will" eventually be "blamed" on someone once all of the facts come out!

Sure... I can look at the polls that still show many people wanting to wait out the crisis, especially those with the financial ability to do so. Those who are still working, especially from home. Those who are garnering overly generous unemployment. Those who have money to fall back on. But those numbers have been slowly but surely changing and will continue to do so in those states where lock downs are being extended, even as the numbers continue to get better.

More and more and more people are out there educating the people on the facts. This is starting to break loose on social media, in what is left of the blogosphere, and you are at least starting to hear it on Fox News. We blew this one, and we blew it big time. Not because we didn't do "something" but because we didn't do the "smart things" that should be expected of the people elected to lead the country and the people they trust to provide us with insight.

While we are willing to literally shut down everything to protect a very small minority of people who are being seriously impacted by Covid-19, the fact is that those in these groups are not being protected very well by the shut down. Moreover, we have done almost nothing specific to address the disparity of who is dying from this disease, and in many cases our wrong-headed thought pattern of protecting society as a whole has led to governing choices that made it worse.

Eg: New York's policy to place Covid-19 infected people into nursing homes. A policy that quite literally put our most vulnerable at greater risk in order to avoid what exactly? Having Covid-19 patients around those who are not at great risk?

Our response to this should have been performed with a scalpel. Instead we chose to use a sledge hammer. There are probably 1001 different things we could have done early on to protect those people most needing protection. But instead, our powers to be simply refused to acknowledge that the majority of deaths were taking place with people over the age of 65 and those with pre-existing conditions, and especially those who were both over 65 and had preexisting conditions. At least in my state (even today) the Governor and his people barely acknowledge it and down play the reality of it as if it is some obscure bit of information that is unimportant. 

Instead, the powers to be led people to believe that "everyone" was equally impacted by it and that "everyone" should be scared out of their collective minds that they were going to die from it, especially if they got within 6' of someone or didn't wear a mask in public.

Was this due to a lack of understanding or because they wanted to stoke some form of fear?

The fact is that a healthy person under the age of 45 isn't protecting themselves or necessarily preventing anyone from dying because they wear a face mask in public. They could, however,  prevent someone from dying by staying away from nursing homes, assisted living communities, and by isolating them from anyone they knew who fit the bill of someone more likely to get it (obese, diabetes, hypertension).

More to the point, the elderly who lived in nursing homes should have had extra care. Those who were at most risk should have been instructed much earlier than everyone else to remain isolated. Instead, we instructed the young and healthy to stay home and pretended that there was no need to treat different people differently.

Absurd policy and borderline criminal, if you ask me. Eventually, hindsight being 20-20, more and more people will agree.