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I think they were doing a thought experiment where you'd let it run wild in the beginning, and let people see the horrors of that, and let that fear be the moti

I think they were doing a thought experiment where you'd let it run wild in the beginning, and let people see the horrors of that, and let that fear be the motivating factor. Arguably fewer deaths could have come out of that strategy, because the anti-maskers and political covid minimizer have successfully spread the misinformation of "it's just a flu, very few deaths" etc. discounting the fact that the fewer deaths were happening coz of masks and lockdowns.

sjg007 6y ago
There’s been plenty of deaths to motivate us.
- macintux 6y ago
  People still are spreading, and believing, disinformation. Even here, when the numbers came out of the 400k extra deaths this year in the U.S., 300k from COVID, no shortage of commenters were disputing the numbers and the causes. One political party has worked so hard over the last generation to convince people that science and experts are the enemy, and now we're paying the price.
dehrmann 6y ago
Half of what we're seeing right now is lockdown fatigue and a lot more people making the decision that the risk is worth it. It's not because they haven't seen how bad it could be, it's because they're numb to what they've seen, and 9 months is a long time.
- taxicabjesus 6y ago
  > it's because they're numb to what they've seen I observe the COVID-19 narrative is probably false, starting with the timeline for the initial spread of SARS-CoV-2 across the globe in November/December 2019. Like the good doctor said, "#containment was never possible" [0]. Many people, including myself, probably had COVID-19 before tests were available. I think people did much better surviving the dreaded virus before the medicalists were treating COVID-19 as a diagnosis. [0] https://twitter.com/TaxiCabJesus/status/1334531533013536768 https://twitter.com/TaxiCabJesus/status/1334531533013536768 edit: Wuhan vastly under-counted their COVID-19 cases: https://edition.cnn.com/2020/12/29/asia/china-coronavirus-seroprevalence-study-intl-hnk/index.html https://edition.cnn.com/2020/12/29/asia/china-coronavirus-se...

sjg007 6y ago

There’s been plenty of deaths to motivate us.

macintux 6y ago
People still are spreading, and believing, disinformation. Even here, when the numbers came out of the 400k extra deaths this year in the U.S., 300k from COVID, no shortage of commenters were disputing the numbers and the causes. One political party has worked so hard over the last generation to convince people that science and experts are the enemy, and now we're paying the price.

dehrmann 6y ago

Half of what we're seeing right now is lockdown fatigue and a lot more people making the decision that the risk is worth it. It's not because they haven't seen how bad it could be, it's because they're numb to what they've seen, and 9 months is a long time.

taxicabjesus 6y ago
> it's because they're numb to what they've seen I observe the COVID-19 narrative is probably false, starting with the timeline for the initial spread of SARS-CoV-2 across the globe in November/December 2019. Like the good doctor said, "#containment was never possible" [0]. Many people, including myself, probably had COVID-19 before tests were available. I think people did much better surviving the dreaded virus before the medicalists were treating COVID-19 as a diagnosis. [0] https://twitter.com/TaxiCabJesus/status/1334531533013536768 https://twitter.com/TaxiCabJesus/status/1334531533013536768 edit: Wuhan vastly under-counted their COVID-19 cases: https://edition.cnn.com/2020/12/29/asia/china-coronavirus-seroprevalence-study-intl-hnk/index.html https://edition.cnn.com/2020/12/29/asia/china-coronavirus-se...