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[–] heygeorge ago 

Restrictions haven’t loosened all at once where there were major outbreaks. And many people have changed their behaviors. So your interpretation of what the infection spike should look like is bogus, especially as we are learning more about the infection rate and how the virus actually seems to spread (such as the apparently low instance of contaminated surfaces spreading infection)

Have you seen this? I’ve been meaning to read the actual study to see if it’s meaningful, but life gets in the way.

https://www.upi.com/Health_News/2020/06/23/Less-than-half-a-population-needs-COVID-19-infection-for-herd-immunity-study-says/5531592933827/

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[–] septenary [S] ago 

Ultimately you can believe what you want, but you should understand that there are no medical and/or mathematical experts who predicted some scenario where lockdown measures were going to be good enough to achieve containment. That was considered off the table since January.

A "best case" scenario for COVID has been an extended/stretched out - but still even/predictable - curve, where the number of hospitalizations remain less than the number of hospital beds available.

Please note again that the notion of achieving and then potentially losing containment again of the virus has not been in even the dreams of experts past 1/2020.

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[–] heygeorge ago 

no medical and/or mathematical experts who predicted... ...since January

In January, there wasn’t even a proper established R0 based on anything solid.
It’s stupid to assume that models introduced in January (and since demonstrated to be inaccurate due to very limited data) are the sole arbiter of what the actual results will be like.

As to your further detailed analysis, and ‘experts’ have publicly stated this numerous times, the response of Americans (and particularly the New York metro area) was very unanticipated. The most optimistic models did not account for the level of compliance achieved by citizens following stay at home orders.