"The basic model was stay at home until either a vaccine arrives or until we have anti-viral treatments that reduce severity and improve outcomes." Something k

"The basic model was stay at home until either a vaccine arrives or until we have anti-viral treatments that reduce severity and improve outcomes." Something key about this statement: This was not what the public was initially told. We were told that the lockdown was to flatten the curve while testing was ramped up and to ensure that the rate of infection was slowed to prevent a spike from causing avoidable deaths due to an overwhelmed health care system. It wasn't sold as reduction of the area under the curve. The narrative of staying locked down until a vaccine was developed didn't happen until after the lockdown became a political football. That was a ridiculous notion, based on the typical time to develop vaccines, especially since a coronavirus vaccine has never been developed before for SARs or any others.