The thing is, we almost had to base every thing on worst case scenario models. There are large swaths of this country that have zero hospitals. The fear that our medical system would collapse if something like what happened with Italy occurred was legit. You're definitely right that a one size fits all approach can't work. People in Birmingham are much, much more tightly compacted and right on top of each other than those in Luverne where it's much more dense. The problem with that, though, is if you just say "Okay we're going to leave this all up to the mayor's and counties to handle it" is there is surely going to end up being some hot spots out there in places that decided to do little to nothing and then it spreads elsewhere. I think Plano said it before, we won't truly know if we over or under played this thing until a year or so down the line. I still personally think if we had acted smarter and quicker in the beginning that it wouldn't have been something that has gone on as long as it has, but that's just my opinion.
