You can't evaluate the counterfactual without a controlled experiment. And we don't have that. We have a year of guesswork, and learning, and trying to stop t

You can't evaluate the counterfactual without a controlled experiment. And we don't have that. We have a year of guesswork, and learning, and trying to stop thousands and thousands of loved ones and neighbors from dying. Perhaps so many lives were saved due to decreases in traffic accidents, that it totally outweighed the lives lost to murder and suicide? Nobody knows right now. We're just doing the best we can to leg it out until people can get the vaccine. There has been no cohesive federal anything, so the states are hanging in there as best they can. Be patient. We've made it a year. We're in the home stretch. Edit: Compare the size of the largest city in California with the largest city in Florida. It's a whole different ballgame. 900k vs 4 million. Florida's playing little-league compared to CA. They're not working with LA sprawl and urban density.