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red13n posted...

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.

But the thing is, you really are downplaying what we did. You completely ignored the effects of what we did do until you were questioned on it, and even still your response is a sheepish "yes, we flattened the curve some." At the same time, you're advocating that we could have done so much more that it's very hard to believe you. We could have done better, but you're presenting it like we could have practically ended covid in just 15 days, when the reality is that without continuous lockdowns we would have still seen later spikes in the curve. You are way overestimating the best case scenario and underplaying the value of what we did do.

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