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Originally Posted by Joelack99
This nails the fallacy of the article. The entire purpose of distancing is to avoid overwhelming the medical establishment so they can treat people instead of warehousing them to just die in the halls. You are about to see (in a month) what that looks like in Georgia. We are the vulnerable in any case. It’s tough, but don’t be fooled by political rhetoric into thinking this is over.
Those who fail to learn the lessons of history are doomed to repeat them: The Spanish Influenza Pandemic: a lesson from history 100 years after 1918 |
Wrong, it's best to trust actual data rather than estimates, especially when most of the models have been catastrophically wrong. Here is actual real time data comparing growth of covid 19 cases of USA and Sweden. One country is in lockdown, the other is not.
Total confirmed COVID-19 cases per million people - Our World in Data