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ChichiriMuyo posted...

That's... not an equivalent at all. If we made it the equivalent then the guy does stop smoking and dies of lung cancer anyway. Was it pointless for him to stop smoking, or did stopping when he did at least prolong his life as compared to not quitting?

Saying we didn't "flatten the curve" suggests it was pointless to try. The curve could have been far less flat if we did nothing, and not acknowledging that fact isn't helpful.

Anyway, to go back to this. You are completely misunderstanding. Some of the US undertook those measures, that was great. But we have this dumb system where rather than have any federally mandated restrictions can happen we have states that take guidelines from the federal government and then do whatever the fuck they want.

So some places made no attempt to flatten the curve. While 15 days to flatten the curve was being promoted, we had a president tweeting "liberate michigan" or whatever. We didn't "stop smoking". We had some people stop smoking and some people decide to start smoking extra to make up for up for it.

So yes, we flattened the curve some. But we didn't flatten the curve anywhere near where we needed it to be to stop a coming surge. Was it pointless? No? Did we flatten the curve -some-? Yes. Did we ultimately fail at dealing with COVID effectively? Yes.

I'm not sure where the argument is coming from here.

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