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Stephan Cotton's avatar

Conservative as in cautious, not in the political sense.

When we're hit with a horrendous and novel pandemic, it's understandable that the medical community won't know how to stop its spread, so the sensible approach is to be as cautious as possible, at least until we know what we're dealing with.

That said, it can reasonably be argued that our caution went longer than was necessary and that some decisions were a bit half-assed (i.e., Newsome's closing churches while letting bars remain open).

Does that clear it up?

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Migs's avatar

Ahhh that makes more sense now. Gotcha.

I think both are true. Also this has been learned for other countries who have had Ebola, sars, swine flu, etc. they all had very different transition rates and death rates.

It’s also hard to kniw if we actually did lock down right. We could have been more aggressive like Europe and have lower death rates like Europe.

What’s hard is that we did everything kind of worse than everywhere. We locked down fast (good) but really didn’t lock down well. Our lockdowns were nothing compared to Asia, Europe or Australia. But because we locked down bad we had higher death but then we kind of continued too long with lockdown. Also we kind of never really prioritized anything. It was just half ass lockdowns.

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