No. @DouthatNYT. As much has you'd like to cast experts as ivory tower and out of touch, most people in public health use common sense, are well-acquainted with uncertainty and operating with partial information. 1/ https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/07/opinion/coronavirus-science-experts.html

Most public health experts, who do the day to day work, have been on the mark since January. We sounded the alarm, asked for testing to be scaled-up, warned about shortages of supplies. The fact that @CDCDirector is a hot mess is not our fault. 2/

The idea that public health failed is just a hot take that can't stand up to scrutiny. The idea that @realDonaldTrump's catastrophic failure of leadership is commensurate with any mistakes we have made is untrue, and a nice way to confuse the public on who they should trust. 3/

I really don't know what the point of your piece is, except a misguided plea to reject experience, expertise and history for some idea that this is all an improvisation without precedent, and any idea is as good as another. end/