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What I don't understand is that this disease becoming globally endemic is pretty much a forgone conclusion. With that in mind, when did the goal posts move from

What I don't understand is that this disease becoming globally endemic is pretty much a forgone conclusion. With that in mind, when did the goal posts move from flattening the curve to keeping things shutdown indefinitely with no clear criteria for slowly returning to normal and allowing an economic recovery to happen. With flattening the curve I suspect we'd want to keep the field hospitals due to the lag time in knowing the actual infection and hospitalization rates.

Mountain_Skies 6y ago
Authoritarian politicians are drunk on power they've only dreamed of before. They won't give it up easily.
- easytiger 6y ago
  I fear particularly for a subset of countries for whom this could easily be an opportunity for highly punative destruction of rights that has been forming in the background already. South Africa for example.
  - malandrew 6y ago
    It's not even a subset of countries. It's all countries, the US included. We're being conditioned to roll over on rights that we've fought hard for over 244 years.
    - easytiger 6y ago
      Indeed. But in SA this could result in the government stealing your property. Literally.
lazyasciiart 6y ago
I don't know where you're from, but here in WA we do have clear criteria. What changed is that we realized that we aren't capable of testing people. Everyone expected tests to be easy to create and widely available well before now.