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Originally Posted by Donger
No worries. However, again, what was the alternative? We shouldn't have enacted mitigation efforts and just let this virus ran rampant through our country? Media should have reported on new cases? The task force shouldn't have estimated the number of deaths that would happen with and without mitigation efforts?
If you want to say that the media coverage of this pandemic has been doom and gloom, I wouldn't disagree and I could see how that could add to the stress.
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That was never the alternative. There was no one arguing to do nothing.
John Ioannidis stated that based on the numbers coming out of China and Italy we would need to focus on the elderly and those in nursing homes, especially those with multiple pre-existing conditions. A targeted response based on the data.
Instead, we locked down the young and healthy, closed schools, and in states such as NY sent Covid patients directly into the nursing homes.
Here is Dr. David Katz who said the same thing.