I think you may have responded a little hastily and misunderstood the comment. --- > An assumption is not a fact. Correct, and the person you were replying t

I think you may have responded a little hastily and misunderstood the comment. --- > An assumption is not a fact. Correct, and the person you were replying to never implied that it was. I'll rewrite the comment more explicitly for you, instead of using the implied context of the quotation: > If the goal was not to flatten the curve but to completely stop the virus in its tracks, we would have to implement extremely strict lockdowns. Most people and countries don't have this goal [to completely stop the virus] --- > A goal isn't a fact either "Entity X has goal Y" is, indeed, a fact. (EDIT: Or, rather, a statement - which may or not be factual) The person you were replying to claims "Most people and countries do not have the goal to completely stop the virus" as a fact. Neither you, nor they, have provided evidence for or against the factuality of this statement. --- Can you elaborate on what, exactly, is discredited about "flattening the curve" - shorthand for "reducing the rate-of-increase of new cases, so that the throughput of new cases is within the carrying capacity of the country-in-question's medical infrastructure"?