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Re:How This Ends by SV_BubbleTime on Sunday May 22, 2022 @11:28AM (#31469200)
>Yes, they did sit down and think that through. That's their job. This is not the first epidemic.

So was “Two weeks to flatten a the curve” the plan that just happened to extended into a year or an always an intended lie?

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Re:How This Ends by randomsearch on Sunday May 22, 2022 @11:39AM (#31469326)
Reality is the public couldn’t handle the facts.

When scientists in the U.K. started talking about herd immunity - the only way out of a pandemic - people went nuts and they quickly had to stop using the term and start reassuring more than informing.

Average pandemic is about four years, not much has changed. They just had to keep people going at the time.

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Re:How This Ends by josephcsible on Sunday May 22, 2022 @12:07PM (#31469647)
> the public couldn’t handle the facts

That sounds a lot like saying "I'm smarter than you, so I'm going to lie to you, but trust me, it's for your own good".

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Re:How This Ends by randomsearch on Sunday May 22, 2022 @12:16PM (#31469750)
Except they accidentally did a real-world experiment and we discovered that people needed to be consoled and not confronted too suddenly with the inevitable
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Re:How This Ends by FooBarBizBazz on Sunday May 22, 2022 @01:35PM (#31470683)
I don't think it was a big conspiracy; it was just people, in positions of responsibility, muddling through as best they could.
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