That is patently false. The whole idea of lockdowns was to "flatten the curve" in order to prevent healthcare from collapsing. It was never, ever to stop outbre

That is patently false. The whole idea of lockdowns was to "flatten the curve" in order to prevent healthcare from collapsing. It was never, ever to stop outbreaks or stop covid. It was made quite explicit by "the experts" that everybody who was gonna get covid would do so and everybody who would die would do so. The area under the "death curve" was going to be exactly the same so long as healthcare didn't collapse. The goal was to literally slow the spread not stop it. Make it roll out slower to keep healthcare in check. This idea that if we locked down harder or people "behaved" we'd be done with covid is a complete lie. That was never the intent of these restrictions. Ever. I find it very curious how even after massive stockpiles of unused ventilators were donated and countless field hospitals were closed up after never seeing a single patient governors extended their stay-at-home orders. Despite it being shown that covid was never a true threat to healthcare, despite the sky-high IFR predictions being shown wrong (thankfully!), we let the goalpost shift to.... well... I still don't know what the goal is. We got very lucky having a vaccine delivered so quickly because without it, we'd have been drifting along aimlessly and things would have got very dark and ugly. > Americans absolutely refuse to work together Curious how many of the nations in Europe that "did it right" wound up getting major outbreaks regardless. Also curious how the curves of all regions basically mirror each other regardless of restrictions or "how serious they took it". Maybe, just maybe, humans aren't as in control of a widespread respiratory virus as they'd like to believe. I believe it is peak human arrogance to think we could somehow control a respiratory virus in this manner. In my opinion history will look upon all this the same way we look at our ancestors performing rain dances and goat sacrifices. They are all examples of meaningless rituals humans perform in order to fool themselves into believing they have more control over mother nature than they actually do.