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>Yes, they did sit down and think that through. That's their job. This is not the first epidemic. So was “Two weeks to flatten a the curve” the plan that just
by SV_BubbleTime 4y ago
>Yes, they did sit down and think that through. That's their job. This is not the first epidemic.
So was “Two weeks to flatten a the curve” the plan that just happened to extended into a year or an always an intended lie?
- randomsearch 4y agoReality is the public couldn’t handle the facts. When scientists in the U.K. started talking about herd immunity - the only way out of a pandemic - people went nuts and they quickly had to stop using the term and start reassuring more than informing. Average pandemic is about four years, not much has changed. They just had to keep people going at the time.
- josephcsible 4y ago> the public couldn’t handle the facts That sounds a lot like saying "I'm smarter than you, so I'm going to lie to you, but trust me, it's for your own good".
- randomsearch 4y agoExcept they accidentally did a real-world experiment and we discovered that people needed to be consoled and not confronted too suddenly with the inevitable
- FooBarBizBazz 4y agoI don't think it was a big conspiracy; it was just people, in positions of responsibility, muddling through as best they could.