Originally Posted by
Cyio
It wasn’t to stop us from all getting it, it was to stop too many of us from getting it at the same time. Do you even understand what happened? This was a resource management issue they had to balance. Of course herd immunity will eventually happen but we couldn’t have everyone getting sick all at once or else the numbers would have been way worse.
and yet except for NJ and NY, who inoculated their nursing homes to produce a wave of casualties, nobody was all that resource constrained. Seattle set up an Army field hospital in Centurylink stadium and sent it back to storage nine days later without ever having seen a patient. Navy Hospial ships were sent to support NYC and LA and were scarcely used.
And states that didn’t lock down fared no worse statistically than those that did.
You can change the goal posts all you want, but you cannot show that locking down uninflected people has EVER been an effective public health tactic.
And almost one-quarter the total US deaths are directly attributable to three states screwing up by mandating that nursing homes full of susceptible people take in patient that were known to be contagious New York among those. About 45% of the cases in NY CAME FROM from nursing homes as a direct result of their BS directive.
Which they have now changed and will be paying billions for in a class action lawsuit in the near future.