• Zuberi@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    15
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    1 year ago

    You forget if we had been inside for 2-4 weeks it would have been over.

    Plenty of other nations were done with it well before us.

    • themeatbridge@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      21
      ·
      1 year ago

      Everybody complains about the shut down, but we didn’t have a shut down. Half of Americans kept walking around, fighting mask requirements and coughing on shit deliberately. Schools closed, but so many went to private schools and makeshift daycares, and it wasn’t even the kids spreading it. Doctors stopped seeing patients and sent everyone to the ER. Millions died preventable deaths.

    • th0mcat@kbin.social
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      5
      arrow-down
      4
      ·
      1 year ago

      No. You would have had to keep every citizen from every country inside for 2-4 weeks and enforce incredibly strict N95/KN95-only mask policies. If you have a single city not doing zero-COVID in this scenario, you lose containment.

        • th0mcat@kbin.social
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          3
          arrow-down
          6
          ·
          1 year ago

          You seem to be stating if the US response had been 2-4 week strict lockdowns that we would have eradicated COVID.

          I am telling you no, it wouldn’t have prevented much unless every single human being on the planet was also in lockdown for the exact same 2-4 week period.

          • Zuberi@lemmy.world
            link
            fedilink
            arrow-up
            6
            ·
            1 year ago

            Seemed to work for so many countries but sure let’s go w/ that lol. Americans will die on any/every hill.