5) The goal was not preventing cases. It was about spreading out the cases over time to mitigate the strain on the healthcare system. You know, "flattening the curve". Obviously, sending cases to nursing homes was a mistake, but it was done so to free up capacity in hospitals and ICUs. But we know this with hindsight. At the time, the areas that did so were getting hammered by the virus and desperately doing what they could to try to save lives. Mistakes were made because localities were fighting an opponent they knew little about with little or no help. Also, moving patients to nursing homes wasn't exactly happening all over the country. I know New York did it, but where else was this the stayed policy? Again, a strong, coordinated, national response could have helped with this by coordinating lockdowns around hotspots and by educating the public on how long "flattening the curve" would actually take and that the flattened curves wouldn't be occuring simultaneously throughout the country. I believe that a major failing of top health officials was not hammering home the time scale of "flattening the curve". It will take months for each area, starting when the pandemic truly arrives in said area. A lot of people erroneously assumed that a few weeks or a month would be all it took and they are now restless and frustrated. Beating a dead horse here, but a strong national-level response could gave helped with this.