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Muscles posted...

I don't really see this stopping until we start developing heard immunity, even complete lock downs like in Italy just pushed it off into the future

This.

Literally everything we've done since this started was stalling until we got a vaccine. Absolutely nothing was going to change that fact.

Short of being able to go into total lockdown for a year where nothing other than the most vital services are allowed to operate, nothing was really going to stop this. And that level of shutdown was never going to be feasible, because it would create an entire host of other problems that would last long after the virus itself was contained (and would be absolutely worthless the first time someone from outside the country comes in and restarts the whole process).

As hard as it can be for people who've lived in relative affluence with no real hardship for 20+ years to understand, we're probably handling this about as well as we can, considering the circumstances. We could certainly have flattened the curve even more, and reduced the infection rate and casualties a bit more than we have, but this was never going to be a situation where we flipped a magical "Solve the Problem" switch and it was over in a couple of weeks, no matter what overly optimistic people were saying back in March.

The best anyone can do is take your own precautions and try to protect yourself and your own loved ones, and try and wait things out until we get a vaccine and establish enough herd immunity to kind of clamp down on it.

If anything, the real problem is the lack of coordinated effort - some states have done a pretty good job of keeping things relatively under control (as much as possible), others, not so much. Granted, different conditions and population factors exist in each, so there's likely no one universal solution or plan that would work, but some states certainly needed to get a better handle on things.
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