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Originally Posted by Xist
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You're quoting others while saying nothing yourself, so it's difficult to track what it is you're trying to highlight. Orange Man Bad?
It seems like you're implying the current outbreak could have been contained had the federal government taking things more "seriously".
Simply recognizing the seriousness of something doesn't necessarily mean the outcome can be meaningfully different. Containment was never on the table (it was when we didn't know anything, but in hindsight it isn't).
It isn't clear that worrying the public sooner would have resulted in better outcomes for both health and the economy. Had we locked things down sooner, we'd simply be in month 2 of quarantine rather than month 1, and that would probably have been premature since you want a certain velocity of virus spread so that herd immunity can be achieved.