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We were also told "two weeks to stop the spread!" by the CDC and most major news sources. "two weeks" from mid-March would be April "stop the spread" could re
by caseysoftware 5y ago
We were also told "two weeks to stop the spread!" by the CDC and most major news sources.
"two weeks" from mid-March would be April
"stop the spread" could reasonably interpreted as "we won, all is well"
Therefore, it's easy to see why people - including Trump - would be convinced this would all be done in April 2020.
- vxNsr 5y agoNot to mention China seemed to have mostly eradicated it by mid-March by simply shutting down for a few weeks. They still seem to have very few cases, many ppl don’t believe their reporting anymore, but at the time it really did look like a quick shutdown would end it.
- Izkata 5y agoIt was "slow the spread" or "flatten the curve", not "stop the spread". The goal was to prevent the hospitals from being overrun while we built extra capacity, after which that extra capacity would allow us to go back to normal. Instead, the extra capacity barely got used and was dismantled a month or two later.
- vmception 5y agoIts equally easy to see how this was to keep compliance with the orders for as long as possible, then, and in hindsight. Even the most heavily locked places with an overly compliant population couldnt have gotten that result by saying it was going to last for 9 months+ Senators on the intelligence committee dumping shares and buying remote work stocks for … a two week disruption? I said the same things in March 2020 I just still don't understand how other people process things.
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