Uh, not it isn’t. Flattening the curve is step 1 (and it is not clear we have even accomplished this), but at minimum you need to bend it downward before re-opening. You don’t need to get to zero, but if your R is 1 and you start relax the restrictions it goes right back up. But if you get the R back down to like 0.7 or 0.5, you have wiggle room to relax things.
The president’s own plan calls for phased re-opening based on observed “downward trajectory” in cases and deaths and testing %. You just keep repeating nonsense because you live in a fantasy world and choose your media based on its high garbage content.
I think local governments should make decisions about their own situations and shouldnt be condemned mercilessly for having the audacity to letting businesses open.
I dont like people getting arrested for merely going to the park, etc.
We just fundamentally disagree on the principle here. Somehow, yall act like someone who wants Americans to have free will to make their own choices is some sort of monstrous position, while justifying banning the sale of garden seeds in the name of safety.
We disagree that you live in reality since every time you describe the lockdown it is based on extreme hyperbole.
Uh, not it isn’t. Flattening the curve is step 1 (and it is not clear we have even accomplished this), but at minimum you need to bend it downward before re-opening. You don’t need to get to zero, but if your R is 1 and you start relax the restrictions it goes right back up. But if you get the R back down to like 0.7 or 0.5, you have wiggle room to relax things.
The president’s own plan calls for phased re-opening based on observed “downward trajectory” in cases and deaths and testing %. You just keep repeating nonsense because you live in a fantasy world and choose your media based on its high garbage content.
Hyperbole would be something that hasn't actually happened, no?
And slow the death rate until a treatment could be found. Hospitalization is down because sick people are staying home if at all possible, and that's all sick people.Stop the spread was intended to prevent massive hospitalizations. Not to prevent infections. It just so happens that every model got the hospitalization rate wrong by massive amounts.
Goalposts.
And slow the death rate until a treatment could be found. Hospitalization is down because sick people are staying home if at all possible, and that's all sick people.
None of this is true. People are not, at least in meaningful numbers, not being hospitalized for CCP virus.
You don't slow a death RATE. And even what you are trying to say is wrong. Death was never the talking point when convincing the public why we needed a lock down. Its just said now because the original reason came in embarrassingly low.
You keep saying embarrassingly low. What are you talking about? Hospital rate has been slowed by the isolation.
I think the clorox has eaten away what was left of your brain.
Deaths were and are part of the equation. That's why there's a running account of the number of deaths on every Covid-19 stat sight. Up to 75,000 now, btw.
Actually no. The point of the lockdowns was definitively to "slow the spread" or to "flatten the curve" or to "not overwhelm the medical system."
Mission accomplished.
Now you want to "buy time" for a treatment or vaccine.
How much time are you willing to buy?
That has nothing to do with what I said. You said " the virus will spread again, why delay it?", not "Why did we shutdown?"
Re-opening in phases does need to start happening, but acting like delaying it has no affect against the spread of the virus and how many people will die as a result is incredibly stupid.