The questions people should be asking...

Pretty much anyone can step up and tell someone that they are doing something wrong. It's not hard to be critical, especially if you do not feel any need to provide an alternative. When I was managing and training managers, one of my favorite things to do was to ask the "complainer" who thought we were doing something wrong, to come up with a better plan to present to the team. I would generally put them in charge and ask that they present their solutions to the group at the next meeting.  It is amazing how much that requirement (to come up with an alternative) reduces the incentive to complain. 

This is sort of how I view what is happening right now. Everyone has an idea of what we are doing wrong, some even have an idea about what we should have done differently from the start. But very few seem to really have a handle on what we should be doing moving forward, other than to complain that we are doing it wrong.

So instead of asking whether or not we are "ready" to open the country back up, shouldn't we first require the naysayers to explain what actually needs to be in place before we open, tell us how long that is going to take, and then have them explain how they intend (with almost no Federal funds available) bring us out of this mess economically.

It's easy to provide some generic concept about "more testings" without telling us how that helps. It's easy to suggest that we need to wait two more weeks, because we are not ready today. But the question that really "needs" to be asked is what is going to be specifically different if we open up next month as opposed to next week? What are we exactly buying with these short term delays other than economic devastation.  Every day that goes by, someone loses a job, another business closes, another mortgage is missed, another credit card is maxed, another savings is depleted, and another life is ruined. 

If we truly looked at the very real devastation occurring every single day that only grows exponentially, it seems sort of crazy that we continue to remain under lock downs, without anyone really explaining to us how it will be medically different in two weeks, or three weeks, or even a month?

If the idea is to wait this out till there are no more new cases or until some sort of cure or vaccine, then fine. Provide that as your solution and tell us that the economy is going to collapse and you are okay with that. But as long as there are cases (and there will be for some time) and as long as there is not a cure or a vaccine (which is months away) the reality remains the same.

Either the virus going to spread again once we reopen... or it's not.  We need to find out one way or the other. 

Moreover, someone needs to provide very simple explanations as to what exactly will be different if we wait another week or another two weeks or another month. Unless someone can explain that, then I suggest that they keep their "complaints" to themselves.