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Well, we took a ton of half measures and performed a lot of safety theater. Big shocker, it didn't work well. Either way, the point wasn't to stop the disease entirely, but spread out the cases to "flatten the curve" and reduce load on hospitals, which it did do.
The thing is, even now we could totally wipe out COVID and other airborne diseases if we just handed out N95 masks to everyone and they actually wore the fucking things. But counting on voluntary participation is a pipe dream, since people will inevitably take their masks off at home and whatnot.
Strange, because the countries where they did implement those measures came out better than the ones that didn't.
I'm sorry, but you can't argue with history.
Man, a massive corporation whose bottom line would be hugely impacted from a proper lock down said a proper lockdown wouldn't work? That's craaaaaaaaazy 🙄
Bruh you're the science denier
What is it you people say, "follow the money" or something?
Because of who funded the study, Chase Bank. No offense, but does your head contain a brain?
But...my whole point was that we didn't do a proper lockdown...
lol
The measures worked much better on the countries that applied them more throughly. As far as European countries go, Italy got struck the earliest without taking measures and their healthcare system collapsed; Spain took note of the situation, applied extremely harsh measures, and while some regions went through severe problems, we got through it far better than Italy.
I'm comparing very similar countries in terms of culture, economics, geographical region, climate, education and technology, which are in the same market and have freedom of movement towards each other, except during the lockdowns.
hey dumfuck, America isn't the only country in the world. we actually can look at what worked elsewhere.
America didn't work because Americans like you refused to cooperate.
What America needed to do was lock down interstate travel but we didn't do that. We had no real quarantine, and people only broadly respected the mask mandate for a few months.
Half-measures are often far less than half-as-effective. Mini-lockdown didn't work because it wasn't a real quarantine, isolation was not achieved. Did you know the word quarantine comes from Latin meaning forty days? Because that's how long ships were kept out of Venice in the late 1300s to make sure nobody on board had the plague. That's the kind of harsh policy required for success, but the world decided that the immediate economy is worth more than permanent eradication of dangerous pathogens.
They failed at the lofty goal of eradication. They, along with vaccination programs, succeeded in reducing the rate and intensity of infections.