No, the politicians didn’t save us from COVID-19

Writing at Reason magazine, Eric Boehm notes two trends revealed in data released by Apple and Foursquare.
Trend One: Americans began reducing their outings and social interactions before, not because of, “shelter in place” orders issued by grandstanding, opportunistic politicians.
Trend  Two: Americans started coming back out and resuming something like normal life before, not because, those politicians started lifting those orders.
In other words, with COVID-19 as with everyth