“The country ‘overreacted’ in response to the coronavirus pandemic, Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) told Axios’ Mike Allen during a virtual event on Wednesday.”
“What Johnson’s saying: ‘[I]n hindsight, I think we overreacted. We closed too much of our economy down, and I don’t think we focused enough on what we needed to do: isolate the sick, quarantine them, protect the vulnerable.'”
“‘At the same time, elected officials. I’m not overly critical … they’ve had to make really tough decisions with imperfect information… The first assumption we all made is that COVID is nobody’s fault. It’s basically an act of God. And so the businesses that are suffering … it’s not their fault.'”