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I'm sorry, I've been reading and re-reading this. Were you being snarky? With perfect forethought, why would anyone ever choose against wiping out the disease e

• im3w1l 6y ago
  Because you think the virus is too contagious and the attempt will fail. Or alternatively, because you don't realize in the beginning that the disease is deadly enough to be worth a lock down.
• thu2111 6y ago
  Because that would require global synchronised and incredibly intensive lockdown of the type that has never happened ever before in history. You'd need to eradicate it globally and simultaneously including in war zones, third world countries etc. That's implausible, which is why the only thing that can work is to just let it spread and deal with the fallout. Sometimes called "herd immunity".