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Re:Flu and colds are back with a vengeance by colechristensen on Thursday November 10, 2022 @11:24AM (#33548814)
There were people (I’m people) saying this a long time ago. It became obvious that the only value of masking and lockdowns was to avoid short term hospital overflows and such measures should only have been in effect for a period of weeks during a few spikes. Otherwise the only thing anybody was doing is delaying when not if they got covid by up to two years.

But covid measures became irrational.

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Re:Flu and colds are back with a vengeance by kybernetikos on Thursday November 10, 2022 @11:39AM (#33549102)
Well, there was also the possibility of delaying catching it until after the vaccine came out, but yes, 'flatten the curve' was all the rage.
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Re:Flu and colds are back with a vengeance by colechristensen on Thursday November 10, 2022 @11:46AM (#33549232)
Flatten the curve was all the rage until the curve was flattened and then it was just let’s keep doing this until…

Lockdowns continued over a year after the vaccine was available

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Re:Flu and colds are back with a vengeance by spookthesunset on Thursday November 10, 2022 @01:27PM (#33550910)
Not sure why this is getting gray because this absolutely was the plan back in march of 2020. I recall UK government stating “everybody will get it, we just need to buy a few weeks to prepare hospitals for the hordes of sick patients”.

Then when those field hospitals closed virtually unused, instead of lifting restrictions and celebrating Covid wasn’t as bad as predicted, society decided to double down on the mitigations and continue them for two years.

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