What I find hypocritical are statements like this, while these guys are standing right next to each other.
“Viruses transmit from people to people. When people are separated from each other the virus does not transmit — it doesn’t go anywhere and that’s the reason why something as simple as the physical separation … that’s our most important tool,” Fauci said Saturday.
Fauci isn't too consistent himself, and the CDC also undermines him.
Mostly, they all lie by omission and specific details.
"Opening up the economy" or "going back to normal" can't happen until the vast majority of people are out of danger of contracting the disease. That means until a vaccine is available and most have taken it (18 to 24 months from now) or "herd immunity" kicks in (24 to 36 months from now).
Then what is supposed to happen by April 30?
By April 30, nothing in the environment will have changed. But they should have statistical evidence of whether current shelter in place and stay-home actions have begun to "flatten the curve."
What happens if the curve proves to be flattening?
We have to remain sheltered in place!
As I just said, nothing will have changed in the environment. April 30 is just like January 30. Until the actual risk of infection goes down substantially, that ol' curve can always go exponential on us if we go back to our old ways.
But wait...there's more. You know that horizontal black line on the graphs that represent the capacity of the healthcare system to handle the disease? That's not a horizontal line. That's a line that drops continually along the X-axis (time) because doctors and nurses and many critical resources are not being pumped into the back end at the rate that they wear out, burn out, get used up, or die at the front end.
There is no "going back to normal" unless, of course, we do some other things differently, like:
1. Gain the capacity to test everyone on demand, repeatedly, and get results back immediately. If/when we can do that, we can go back to life as somewhat normal.
2. Get enough N95 masks and alcohol into distribution so that everyone can have as many as necessary (and that's at least one new mask per day for each working individual...100 million a day).
If we're not using this time to get either of those things done, then "shelter in place" is the new normal for the next 18 months to three years.