So we basically have a disease that spreads very easily w/ a 2-week incubation and will kill a disproportionate part of our at-risk population. While I get it, I'm actually not sure cancelling large public events is the best idea. Part of me thinks we should be encouraging our healthiest people to acquire it early to build herd immunity with the strongest part of the population, but I'm also not an epidemiologist and I'd rather have a 0% chance of dying than a 0.1% chance.
Unfortunately, this is the exact scenario where you don't want someone like Donald Trump in charge, not even b/c of his politics, but b/c his personality prefers gut instinct to forethought and his ego plays a high role in decision-making even as the experts are trying to teach him about exponents.
But while I'm at it, healthcare reliant on insurance and the private sector is not well built to handle these sorts of situations.