My friend learned about evaporation when he was five or six. A few weeks later, he was on a long family car ride. He had to pee; he remembered evaporation. Little squirts, strategically placed, were the hypothesis, but his pants became wetter and wetter. He stuck to his strategy.
This is the best analogy I could come up with for America's coronavirus response. And I'm not trying to say we are collectively pissing our pants (though feel free to say whatever you want, reader). What I'm trying to say is that we learned a little bit of science, and then applied our knowledge. Great idea, but we forgot the most important thing - when the evidence starts coming in, you have to respond, you have to adjust, or you aren't being scientific at all.
