Rigby5
Diamond Member
Well……
Doctor Fauci’s advice was consistent with what medical experts were saying at the time
Trump’s pronouncements made experts go WTF?
Actually no!
There is no one with any medical knowledge that was suggesting that "flattening the curve" was a good long term strategy.
The only reason you might want to flatten the curve for a week or so, is to give yourself time to determine the lethality of the epidmemic.
If it is too lethal, you go full quarantine with contract tracing, like we did for Ebola. So you end it as quickly as possible.
If it is not too lethal, then you accelerate infection among volunteers. So you end it as quickly as possible.
There is no scenario where you try to continue to flatten the curve.
That just prevents herd immunity and makes the epidemic last forever, causing the largest possible death total.