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Originally Posted by Jeff Higgins
They are playing the long game. They are counting on, in the end, everyone's death rate will be about the same. They look worse right now, in the short haul, by they are banking on not experiencing the second and third waves others will experience as restrictions are lifted. Time will tell. If, in the end, everyone comes out about the same with regards to death rates, and they did not shut everything down and suffer economically, that should tell us something about what to do "next time".
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Clearly, the thing to do next time, (there will be a next time), is to reinstate the pandemic task force based in China that the current administration dismantled and maybe even beef it up a little. You know, the one tasked with identifying, tracing and containing new dangerous viruses? That one.