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Originally Posted by petegz28
You are exactly right. So as has been stated the entire time, the mitigation was to slow the run on the hospitals not necessarily minimize the number of people who got the infection.
If we didn't mitigate we would have had the same number of infections but probably more deaths due to lack of resources in the hospitals.
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Here is what Dr Fauci has repeatedly said about flattening the curve
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“If you look at the curves of outbreaks, you know, they go up big peaks, and then they come down. What we need to do is flatten that down,” he has said publicly. “That would have less people infected. That would, ultimately, have less deaths.”
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