Best way to contain a pandemic is to cripple economies...

Yes, the best way to contain an "alleged" pandemic is to cripple economies by governments' banning, sanctioning, restricting, closing, cancelling as well massively spending, festering conditions for anxiety, unrest, crime, riot and war, along with facilitating police-statism of course for public safety and general welfare.

Regarding my country...

I'm not sure with whom I am most astonished and disappointed; US government or American people, for the empowered former ultimately reflects the empowering latter. thus having gravely digressed from a land of hardy even rough-n-ready individualists to a society of emotionally coddled then crippled codependents.

Come let us Reason. Peace is always a Choice.

Study, Ponder, Labor, till last Breath.