Are we now going to ignore the weeks of horror that New York went through and many South American countries are going through right now? Contrary to the au

Are we now going to ignore the weeks of horror that New York went through and many South American countries are going through right now? Contrary to the author’s claims, no one in their right mind went into lockdown trying to decrease the total number of deaths, not directly at least. Lockdowns were/are there to smoothen the spike of cases and prevent medical system from the overload. As to diminishing cases, could it be that people got the habits of social distancing and hand washing? In a small country without large cities it would not take much to take R_t to the values that are close enough to 1.0.