Re:War Is a Racket (1935)
by asdff on Thursday May 25, 2023 @06:32PM
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How was this country defeated by covid? What could he have done otherwise? Hospitals aren't overwhelmed today, that was the entire concern of the pandemic.
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People forgot about the whole "flattening the curve" thing, and a bunch of narratives cropped up about what the end goal was.
The goals, which were never real, started to have political consequences and it became a whole thing.
People forgot about flattening the curve because we literally did flatten the curve. It was about hospital capacity:
https://www.michiganmedicine.org/health-lab/flattening-curve...
We were defeated in the sense that the very idea of fighting covid became a political hot button and a huge percentage of the US population decided not to fight.
Yes, it could have been worse, maybe we could have had utter collapse. But hospitals did get overrun multiple times and many people died completely unnecessarily because we stopped fighting. I really wouldn't call this a win; covid is now endemic and continuing to evolve inside us. At best this is a bloody stalemate.