Your criticism does not make sense at all. I wish you addressed my questions and criticisms of your argument instead of bringing up new points, but I'll address your new points as well.

> Another misleading assertion is the idea that our "re-opened" state is anything like the state of affairs pre-lockdown

You have a faulty assumption that spread factor was reduced due to lockdown. 7 states did not close down (Arkansas, Iowa, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, Utah, and Wyoming), and many states that locked down has been open for weeks now [1]. We have not see a spike in neither of these scenarios relative to the still locked down states.

Again: there is no correlation between being locked down and reduced spread factor. Quite to the contrary NYC and other places under heavy lock-down has been the worst affected.

> Still another issue is your somewhat facile assessment of Walmart and other retail scenarios. The relevant metric here would not be closure of stores but transmission of the virus, as many people would be asymptomatic including, likely, workers. Yet, they may still have transmitted the virus.

You honestly that all those workers are symptomatic in a high exposure scenario at a lower rate than the general population?

And you honestly claiming that a highly contagious virus that you claim has such a high likelihood of hospitalization and death that we all need to be on lockdown, somehow doesn't have this effect to the same degree on grocery workers that are exposed more than anyone? All ages work in grocery stores [3].

Grocery store workers are heroes, but I didn't know they were superheroes.

> But the real problem is that you omit the fact that measures we took to limit store hours, numbers of concurrent shoppers, in-store distancing

That doesn't make sense if the desire is to reduce peak traffic. Limiting store hours with a similar amount of shoppers increase people per hour of shopping, and limiting concurrent shoppers cause huge lines outside. Arguably this may increase virus exposure.

In-store-distancing: covid is transmitted on and can stay alive on metals, plastics as well as other inside surfaces for an extended period. Up to a day on cardboard.

* scientific facts on ineffectiveness of major lockdown measures

N95 masks work: mask to filter out 95% of particles larger than 0.3 microns. Coronavirus is between 0.06 and 0.14 microns.

Social distancing doesn't stop you from being exposed by:

- virus suspended in droplets smaller than five micrometers can stay suspended for about a half-hour

- virus stays alive up to a day on everything in a grocery store (or any other store or delivery container); cardboard, plastics, metals

Wearing gloves: virus actually lives longer on plastic gloves and gloves in general worsens spread [2]

TLDR; Only highly targeted and managed approaches has worked in limiting deaths, such as isolating the vulnerable. The lockdown measures and protective gear people wear are not stopping the virus spread due to virus size as well as how it spreads, but it is an excellent signal of obedience to nonsense measures.

[1] https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/reopening-america-see-w...
[2] https://www.orthospinenews.com/2020/04/23/spreading-coronavi...
[3] https://www.bls.gov/cps/cpsaat18b.htm