Originally Posted by
AntiPeter
In the case of California, more stringent attempts to suppress COVID have made their situation worse. They’ve had a much more rapid increase than other states with much less restrictions (like Texas and Florida).
Notice how even with significantly different mitigation/suppression and economic strategies, the big 3 states ended up in the same place. It’s just that California did it by overloading their hospitals while destroying their economy.
I don’t see any empirical evidence that show suppressing the virus is effective. In California’s case they seem to be much worse off for the path they have taken.
This is completely not true. The virus was taking a huge toll before any restrictions were put up. That’s why they placed restrictions. The virus didn’t explode because there are restrictions. In fact it would get even more out of control if there aren’t any. But if people aren’t following it then is it really because of those restrictions? You’re saying somehow if there were no restrictions there would be less cases? Does that make any sense? CA, Texas and Florida have been the worst states in this. CA is higher because it’s more populated, but Florida and Texas are close second and third and then there’s the rest of the less populated states.