| We flattened the curve... we bought time... most of us took active measures. It's helped. We have evidence it works. Yet, people, who i assume are smart people, say that we're overreacting and we're causing societal harm and taking away their freedoms. I can only laugh and cringe... History shows that those cities that took active measures in every prior epidemic survived better and recovered better and thrived after. This isn't our first pandemic, wont' be our last. Where we failed is we were woefully unprepared, our administration convinced people it's not that bad but here we are months later, deaths are still pushing upwards of 1,000 americans a day and people are saying its no worse than the flu. There is no evidence to support this argument unless you're trying to deceive people. You don't even need to know statistics. Take the worst flue year where we had 48k deaths that year. Covid is 5x worse that and we still haven't even made it through an entire year. Take our best flue year - 1986-87 - where only 2,868 or so died. We'll be 100x times worse than that year with COVID alone and we're just NOW entering the common flu season. The basic math doesn't support some of these studies that seem to use statistics for political gain rather than simple math for communicating the obvious differences. And lets not forget - the death toll is only under control because we are taking active measures. |