Neither is Trump, but at least I listen to them.
You see, this right here is exactly what presidents are supposed to do. They listen to their advisors and they make decisions after weighing the advice of specialists against the other issues in order to have the best overall balance.
Let me give you an example that has nothing to do with viruses. Suppose the military brass tell the president that the easiest way to kill our enemies in some far off country is a nuclear bomb. Considering we already have the bomb, its cheap. Very few American lives put in danger. Chances of killing the enemy in short order are 100%. And the list of good reasons to use a nuke goes on and on.
But the president decides not to use a nuke, for what most people consider to be obvious reasons. The long term fallout (pardon the pun) outweighs the ease with with we destroy the enemy. We just create more enemies down the road. We cede the moral high ground. Etc. Read some history about JFK and the Bay of Pigs and the Cuban Missile crisis where he talks about the difficulty in balancing the opinions of experts in a specific field with the responsibility to manage not just the crisis at hand, but the crisis down the road and the country as a whole.
Of course the 'scientists' are going to tell you that in order to combat the spread of a virus that we have to limit this and lockdown that and only do this and never do that. But those scientists aren't in charge of the country as a whole and they aren't qualified to manage the overall economics of a crisis, nor is it their purview to do so. People getting sick and dying isn't the only issue, ...far from it. There has to be a balance and that is what Trump is trying to do.