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Originally Posted by O.city
You're essentially trying to buy time. Buy time to stock up materials for hospitals and capacity (should have done that in January or Feb, but thats in the past and here we are). Buy time for a therapeutic (prophylactic antibodies will be here late spring early summer).
You can't buy time for a vaccine. They're saying 18 months, the average vaccine takes about 5 years so i wouldn't hold my breath on that one.
So in the end, yeah, you needed either a better plan or be better at relaying what the actual plan was.
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Which requires far more political will than the American public is demonstrating. It requires more backbone than people standing up saying "My god, is this America?" when these projections come out.
Because the people that are dying right now? They're not dying because the system collapsed or because it failed them. They're not dying because they weren't getting treatment. The vast majority of the people dying right now received excellent care and it didn't do ****-all.
Because this disease sucks bawls and our body has no method of dealing with it at the moment.
And even with that, people are at each other's throats. People are calling lagging indicators a sign of the Apocalypse or using them as justification for calling for soldiers on the streets.
When this was just goddamn near unavoidable. Some have not been - the PPE and healthcare providers getting sick is maddening and yeah, something that shouldn't be happening. But these are major outliers within the raw numbers and its the raw numbers that are freaking people out. The raw numbers wouldn't be appreciably different regardless of the amount of PPE available.
And again, this is all ****ing terrible. But if people haven't really understood what the paths forward were...I just don't know how you can impart that to them. This seemed clear on its face from the beginning.