> I don’t think anywhere in the US did anything that could reasonably be called a lockdown.
Agreed, yet people still clamor for more of the same ineffective nonsense while dousing their hands in sanitizer and erecting plexiglass barriers in front of everything. We do everything except what would make a difference: fixing indoor ventilation.
Re:The Coronavirus Is Here Forever
by odessacubbage on Tuesday August 24, 2021 @12:58AM
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the problem is that even those halfhearted measures have proven to be economically disastrous for small to medium scale businesses and virtually everyone without a line to nearly limitless private equity. pairing the rollout of ineffective 'lockdowns' with woefully insufficient safety nets [that were even further stripped down and delayed by politicking] has effectively poisoned the public will towards any further interventions across large segments of the country. you would have been hard-pressed to even deliberately design a containment more guaranteed for failure.
“Try to gather in groups of no more than six (at a time).” “When you need food, go to the grocery store (as often as you see fit).”
Is anyone surprised that a highly contagious virus was able to escape these “lockdown” measures?