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The curve has not been flattened yet.  Decisions are not being made based on what you think is more important or on your opinion. Decisions are being made based on what is the safest possible activity.  Schools are one of the least safest activities.  You can say they are important all you want, but that doesn't make them safe to open as they existed before.  The word essential is not going to re-open schools as they were on March 1st.  [/quote]

The curve has been flattened, decisions are not being made based on what is the safest possible activity, and there is no evidence that schools are one of the least safe activities.[/quote]

So yes it's been flattened (not growing exponentially anymore) -- but it's not actually FLAT much less declining. rate of new cases is still growing in MoCo and in Maryland more broadly, as it is nationally (when you remove NY from picture):

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/maryland-coronavirus-cases.html
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/05/06/opinion/coronavirus-deaths-statistics.html[/quote]

The idea was not to decline the curve. That would be great, but evidently as a country we're incapable of doing that.[/quote]

Exactly. Flattening the curve means that the same number of people get sick, just over a longer period of time so that the health system can handle
It.

https://www.nytimes.com/article/flatten-curve-coronavirus.html[/quote]

omg my heard hurts, you're not getting it. it's not flat yet, it's still climbing! difference between verb (flattening) and noun (flat). as a pp said, it's "flattening" (increasing at a lower rate than it was, so closer to a horizontal line than a vertical one)  as in but it's not yet there. it's not flat, not in maryland, and esp not in moco.
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It has flattened in MD and now deaths, hospitalizations, and even new cases are approximately the same each day, with some variation. It’s not an expontential growth. It is painful that you don’t understand how this works.[/quote]

pp didn't say it was exponential now. no one has. [/quote]

Well, with approximately the same numbers each day, it’s flat.[/quote]

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