Big Muddy
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- Dec 15, 2019
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True, and also worth noting that this has been called a "novel" virus. Seems like medical officials were trying to tamp down things until a vaccine was developed, and tried to prevent hospitals and ICUs from being overrun.The crisis this time was ten fold larger with lockdowns. The flu is also something that is well understood with a predictable timeline. These situations are apples to oranges.
I wonder what these folks would have done instead (just let the virus rip through the population?) and what level of death would have been acceptable to them that would have made their perceived infringements in freedoms worthwhile? Would double the amount of deaths been OK (1.2 million in the U.S.), five times (3 million)? There's a fine line between freedoms and another thing we don't discuss (socioxxxx) it seems.