London may have gone into a Covid-accelerated decline

Re:London may have gone into a Covid-accelerated decline by vorpalhex on Saturday May 23, 2020 @06:39PM (#23287220)

The point of lockdowns in the US was to delay the peak of cases until hospitals had time to prepare and could more likely have enough capacity.

This seems a very difficult point for most people.

Early on, we had an exponential rise in cases and it appeared we would overwhelm hospitals. Therefore quarantine orders were issued (rather delayed imo) to offset the growth and allow hospitals to not have more cases than beds/equipment.

We had a lot less data initially and had to be proactive. The initial call was correct, and slowly easing it with monitoring is correct now.

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Re:London may have gone into a Covid-accelerated decline by catalogia on Saturday May 23, 2020 @10:50PM (#23288688)

There were different points to lockdown for different people. Depending on who you talked to, the point of lockdown was to flatten the curve, or to eradicate corona, or to wait until corona was eradicated. There was never broad consensus about what the point of lockdowns was.

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Re:London may have gone into a Covid-accelerated decline by PaulDavisThe1st on Sunday May 24, 2020 @12:05AM (#23288981)

the entirety of US popular culture, excluding fox news, was dominated by the meme "flatten the curve" in March and into April.

it is totally disingenous to suggest that anyone actually proposing the "lockdown" claimed that it was about eradicating it or waiting for it to pass (both of which are widely understood to be absurd goals at this time).

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Re:London may have gone into a Covid-accelerated decline by catalogia on Sunday May 24, 2020 @12:26AM (#23289071)

I don't watch cable news. I'm talking about the attitudes of people I've seen expressed online (including this website) or in public.

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