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Trump got that majorly wrong, but those initial numbers were correct. As with pretty much every respiratory (airborne/droplet) virus you seem to have initial success with lockdowns only to delay the deaths and reach herd immunity quite later. In reality there's nothing that can be done to prevent its spread or manipulate its curve in a significant way, and the sooner you achieve natural herd immunity the better.
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Trump got that majorly wrong, but those initial numbers were correct. As with pretty much every respiratory (airborne/droplet) virus you seem to have initial success with lockdowns only to delay the deaths and reach herd immunity quite later. In reality there's nothing that can be done to prevent its spread or manipulate its curve in a significant way, and the sooner you achieve natural herd immunity the better.
Bingo. That's all there is to this. We're not stopping a respiratory virus. Hiding inside (technically worse), masks, stopping the economy, etc. It was all a waste of time. Trump did fuck up covid, there's no doubt about it. He's also not a doctor. He relied on 40 year bureaucrats to guide his policy on it that fucked up AIDS and funded making covid. He should have known better. Trump was an economy POTUS. Health was out of his realm.
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