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I mean by your logic, focused protection didn't do a damn thing either.

• spookthesunset 3y ago
  Turns out you can’t control or contain a highly contagious respiratory virus. To think we could was peak human arrogance.
  • DiogenesKynikos 3y ago
    Several countries were highly effective at controlling it, and had far lower death tolls as a consequence. These countries are very diverse in many respects, so one can't claim that they only succeeded due to some particular quirk they share in common: China, New Zealand, Australia, Vietnam, Taiwan, Singapore, and others.
    • orblivion 3y ago
      FWIW I'll jump on the other side and note that most of these are island nations which makes it a lot easier.
      • DiogenesKynikos 3y ago
        China is not an island nation.
• ryandrake 3y ago
  Very few places in the world actually tried “focused protection” or seriously tried anything at all, so we probably won’t know until the next pandemic hits and we hopefully try something then. The only thing we really learned, at least in the USA, is what happens when you basically do nothing society-wide in the face of a pandemic. Outside of a few major metro areas, the country was just like Florida. Business closures on paper but not enforced, weak stay-at-home suggestions that were largely ignored, voluntary travel restrictions that were similarly ignored and unenforced. The school closures were the one major exception, where at least briefly, actual collective, coordinated action happened.