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"Flatten the curve" != "wait until the epidemic burns out" The fact that the rhetoric started with one and ended with the other makes the whole process feel di

• evultrole 6y ago
  We literally have to talk about goals as they come up. It's not that complicated. It makes no sense to keep saying "flatten the curve" as a goal once we achieve that goal, and it makes no sense to say "wait for it to burn out" during a period of skyrocketing growth. Once we get over the exponential growth, we then have to wait for it to drop. Otherwise we'd just go right back to exponential growth. All you people acting like "oh, the curve flattened, now we can go back to normal" are the kind of people that caused three massive spikes in the 1918 flu. We're very likely to have a second spike that is way worse than the first because of this attitude.
  • jsight 6y ago
    Literally noone is saying "go back to normal". If the goal was to get it to burn out, the initial statement should have been "we need to isolate until it burns out". That was not the initial sell to the public.