1/ The people writing these articles, and the people quoted in them, would have a lot more credibility if they would talk honestly about the fact that outside of NYC (and arguably NOLA/Detroit) the US has seen no serious problems from #COVID... https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/22/opinion/coronavirus-states-reopen.html?smid=tw-share

2/ That the models were just wrong last month, and that #COVID is simply not as dangerous as it appeared a few weeks ago, except to the elderly and people with severe comorbidities. One can acknowledge all that and still argue for lockdowns...

3/ Based mainly on what happened in NYC - with a coherent explanation as to why that is generalizable to the rest of the US. But to have the same people who forecast doom last month (and it is the SAME people) keep doing so no longer means much to anyone who's paying attention...

4/ They'd also have more credibility if they talked honestly about the fact that European countries are now loosening lockdowns and opening schools, instead of pretending that this trend is confined to a handful of red states.