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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We made a mistake.  In hindsight we should not have all gone home.  We should have masked but kept everything including schools going.  People's fears now are based on what we did.  No one should be at home now.  Wear a mask if it makes you feel better.  But get out there.  [/quote]

I disagree that people shouldn't have gone home, temporarily, in ~March 2020 when things exploded.  Flattening the curve made sense. Getting PPE and preventing overwhelming hospitals was a good call.  Especially pre-vaccine.

But, after that, yeah, there should have been a change in strategy, and (in some places) there wasn't much of one, except (THANKFULLY) opening some childcare for those willing to use it.  Still, there was excess death in places that took "no precautions" approach versus those that took extreme precautious.  Schools should have been in person, but also, families should have been offered virtual options if that worked for them and they needed it (multigenerational homes or those with immunocompromised family members).  School systems generally could not do both with the resources they had.  It really isn't black and white, and we didn't make a mistake.  The only choices were bad choices, and we did the best we could.  (For the most part - of course mistakes were made, and some where not in good faith.)

And now that the idea of herd immunity is no longer an option, we still find ourselves left with poor options.  Most of us should probably go on with life as "normal" at this point.  But unless something significant changes, it is going to result in excess death in society (compared to pre-COVID-19 levels).  I don't think individual choices can affect that much at this point.  It is not great.  But I'm also not forgoing travel and socialization for an additional 2+ years, for no clear benefit to either society or myself.  It is great that vaccines blunt the toll that COVID-19 would have otherwise had, but COVID-19 is still a problem, and will be.  [/quote]

NP. There are by now several studies that show that "lockdown" measures made no significant difference in controlling the virus, so it's hard to argue that we did the right thing. That doesn't mean that individual choices to be cautious until vaccination didn't make a positive difference for the individual.[/quote]

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