Quote Originally Posted by Gutter Cobreh View Post
100% agree w/ you! The mortality rate is just now being thrown around to justify a rise in cases.

In hindsight, and to your point, we should have had a "rolling" closure. The reason we couldn't do that is because there wasn't enough PPE for even the areas of the country who were seeing spikes. This is why Fauci said not to wear masks in the beginning and later changed his tune. There weren't enough masks to outfit every citizen in the beginning. The lack of basic supplies to combat the problem initially is what resulted in the entire country going on lock down.

This is also the reason why we are now divided as a country regarding the virus. You had people isolated for months and losing their businesses and income - only to see their area have no substantial increase in the spread of the virus. They come out of isolation bitter because they think their efforts were for naught.
It's not that they didn't have a substantial increase in the virus. It's that when it was clear the goal of flattening the curve had been accomplished everywhere outside of New York basically, the goal posts got moved and "two weeks to flatten the curve" became something indefinite, or tied to nonsensical guidelines (like Trump's phased reopening that although it allowed for state and local governments to tailor the plan to match their circumstances, made it politically difficult for them b/c ass hats still pointed to the nonsensical tests and claimed they were ignoring the federal government's guidance). Then they compounded that by basically just saying "never mind", when a lockdown interfered with either their political goals or virtue signaling.