04-21-2020, 06:59 AM
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Originally posted by ironyak
...Over 40,000 Americans dead over the last 4 months from this disease with extraordinary efforts made to reduce transmission - still not just the flu bro.
East Coast lockdowns occurred 4 weeks after dozens of spreaders from Europe had arrived, so these efforts were probably too late to prevent most of the infections and deaths.
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Originally posted by kander
good points, we may not know how well the lockdown actually worked because the only other country that did not was Sweden. not really a big enough sampling of data to clearly show...
There could be some concern in the future as the virus mutates into stronger more virulent strains ..
I don't think Iceland or Netherlands did full lockdowns either. Of course, they have banned large gatherings and adopted common sense social distancing measures as seen elsewhere in the world.
Saw a video recently with German scientist who was suggesting coronavirus may be weakening, becoming less virulent rather than more so.