> If we let the infection spread unabated, most hospital systems will swiftly be overrun. There is no reason to believe that. The hospitals weren't overrun in

> If we let the infection spread unabated, most hospital systems will swiftly be overrun. There is no reason to believe that. The hospitals weren't overrun in New York City, where the infection was not only not abated, but in fact the policy of sending infected people to nursing homes, and requiring them to accept them. Texas and Florida had very little cases before they locked down, and only started growing after lockdowns were mostly lifted. At no point were their hospital systems overwhelmed. > The lockdowns are absolutely necessary to avoid panic and potential societal breakdown. No, it's the lockdowns that are inducing panic. There was no panic during 1968 Hong Kong flu, which up until recently was worse than COVID-19 -- it only recently over took it. Where was the panic in Sweden? > The lockdown was implemented to pause the system and determine just exactly how bad this was and come up with a response. Why did so many lockdown measures persist, then? Sheer arbitrariness of it all shows pretty clearly that at this point is more about politician's power trip and sending message of doing something, and not actual public health concerns.