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I’d guess jb775 saw a clip with a conservative lawmaker or pundit making this point. It’s been floating around the news lately. Take a look at the recent argume

I’d guess jb775 saw a clip with a conservative lawmaker or pundit making this point. It’s been floating around the news lately. Take a look at the recent argument between Sen. Rand Paul and Dr. Fauci[0]. Essentially republicans are trying to push this idea that the number of infections and deaths from COVID-19 are inevitable and any government intervention can only impact the timing. In other words the area under the curve is constant. They don’t want people thinking that if action was taken by the U.S. gov sooner (Feb instead of Apr) we would have dramatically fewer deaths and cases, which is probably a more scientifically accurate view but with all the data being so new this debate is ripe for political distortion. [0] https://youtu.be/Yk2p2oyXxTc https://youtu.be/Yk2p2oyXxTc

itsoktocry 6y ago
>They don’t want people thinking that if action was taken by the U.S. gov sooner (Feb instead of Apr).. Why do you single out "conservatives" when Democratic politicians were telling people during the Chinese Lunar New Year there was nothing to worry about? This wasn't a partisan blunder.
- Simulacra 6y ago
  Do as they say, not as they do.
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arethuza 6y ago
I only watched the start, but he describes the curve as having number of deaths as the Y axis - every description of "flattening the curve" that I have seen has number of cases as the Y axis. The point being to stop the number of cases overwhelming healthcare so that more people die - not just to rearrange when people who were going to die anyway actually die. I don't know if that is a mistake or intentionally misleading - I would hope the former. Note: I'm from the UK.