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The point was to limit the spread of the virus throughout the entire population, and an attempt to prevent hospitals from being overwhelmed by the infected.
by aedocw 5y ago
The point was to limit the spread of the virus throughout the entire population, and an attempt to prevent hospitals from being overwhelmed by the infected.
- vinyl7 5y agoWhatever helps you rationalize that we basically destroyed the younger generation in hopes of saving the old/dying generation
- spookthesunset 5y agoToo bad you'll never really know if any of it worked. Kinda would have been nice to stick with proven mitigations we had planned out for decades instead of chuck it all out of the window in search of a miracle cure. If you read pre-covid pandemic planning, virtually everything they suggestion you dont do society decided to do. Everything they suggested you should do, we ignored.
- Apocryphon 5y agoSweden's low-restrictions approach exists as an alternative case study: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic_in_Sweden https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic_in_Sweden
- heyoni 5y agoAnd if we (the US) are going to take example on Europe for anything, let's do universal healthcare first before taking the laissez-faire approach to a pandemic. Seems like a good pre-requesite.