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Originally Posted by pmax
Here's Fl.
All we did was flatten out the initial months of the outbreak.
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That's all you can do. We've known from early on (cruise line studies, Oakland, Boston homeless, etc. ) that the virulence was high, but mortality relatively low. But thanks to the media and our government(s), we've panicked and taken a more damaging lockdown (and theatrical) approach.
Best course of action would have been (and remains!) to not lock down en mass, allow the healthy people to be exposed, and do your best to sequester / protect the elderly and immuno-compromised. That's how you achieve herd immunity and eliminate a virus that's not otherwise going to decimate the healthy.
I get that we didn't know that in February/March, but by May/June, it was pretty obvious if one bothered to look at the data.
This fear needs to end. People need to go to work and kids need to go to school. To do otherwise, is madness.
Positive tests aren't the key indicator. Follow the death rate (and local Healthcare capacity) to determine risk.
Sweden got it right. And the only thing they could have done better would have been to protect the elderly - - but that's hard to do ad the elderly are tended to by the healthy, mobile young that you want to expose. Nursing homes need PPE on the level of hospitals for events like this.
Note that I'm sympathetic to the working immuno compromised that should otherwise not go to school, work, or crowded places. Accommodation should be made for them. But restricting the vast majority of the population in a fruitless hope of hiding from the virus is the wrong strategy for this virus. The data shows that.
And I'm thankful this wasn't The One. We were told it was a Cat 5, but we got a Tropical Storm (maybe Cat 1). This continued fear-mongering could make the populace less sensitive to future threats just as its done with hurricane threats.