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Originally Posted by OrangeBlossomBaby
You won't know if this is all working as planned, until 2 weeks AFTER the "cases per day" level out at some kind of minimum
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We won't know until well after that. Lockdown was only undertaken to flatten the curve so that hospitals could cope. Once lockdown restrictions are eased, cases will rise. That doesn't mean we need to go into lockdown again, as hospitals are generally much better equipped now than they were three months ago.
The big question (only answerable many months from now) will be whether countries such as Sweden (that treated its citizens as adults and didn't impose a harsh lockdown) will have a lower overall death rate and a quicker reduction to virtually no new infections than nanny states that over-reacted and are still reluctant to face the fact that hiding away is merely going to delay any recovery.