There is no science that says masks do not cause more harm than good.
The end of every epidemic in the past has come from the herd immunity provided by the initial spike.
By "flattening the curve" and preventing this spike, you prevent the epidemic from ending, and force it to go on essentially forever.
There are a variety of strategies that work, like quarantine, herd immunity, variolation, vaccination, etc., but they all rely on speed. Flattening the curve instead deliberately slows it down and gives it the maximum time to spread as widely as possible, making it impossible to end.
Oh ok. So you’re saying you think we should have not mitigated the initial spike. Let more people get infected. Let 2 million people die, collapsed out medical system, hit herd immunity the natural way and then we would be all good. Ok that’s one possible way we could have handled it. I’d prefer a different approach, but to each their own
Wrong.
When Fauci estimated 4.5 million dead, he was off by over a factor of 1000.
The biggest mistakes come from no yet knowing about how most of those infected are asymptomatic and therefore not tested or counted.
This lead Fauci to use a lethality percent of those infected, of 1.5.
Now that we have better numbers, we actually know it is more like 0.18.
The second mistake was not realizing that most people already have inherent immunity to every epidemic. That is where the asymptomatic come from, and also all children seem to be inherently highly resistant, with only 100 of the 280k dead being children.
The third mistake Fauci made was not realizing the age factor can change the fatality rate by as much as 630%. If one used variolation on only the healthy under 40, you can reduce the death rate by at least a factor of 40.
And the best way to prevent hospital overflow is to end it as fast as possible. Hospital over flow is from "flattening the curve" over a greater time period, allowing hospitalized victims to accumulate. Flattening the curve has increased the number of infected by a factor of 10 over times. It has caused the largest possible death toll. The smallest possible death toll comes from the fastest possible ending.
With something growing and spreading, time is ALWAYS of the essence.
Anything slow is then very bad.