"Those people" would be professionals a shitload more qualified than you and me. They never said that this single lockdown was all that it would take. You just said it yourself: get past the peak. This isn't even remotely over. Not calling you out or trying to fuck with you here: but did you legitimately think we'd sit indoors for a few weeks and then get back to normal? Even remotely close to normal?
Nobody likes this shit, but if you turn your head even slightly the very real danger of undoing what's been accomplished is right there. We jump the gun and it's going to be even more lockdowns. You ready to spend June and July reliving April? Cause the economy sure isn't. Fuck knows if it's going to survive this month, but it definitely won't survive a resurgence of the disease.
I absolutely 100% would not mind being wrong about any of this, but the moment the lockdown drops everyone is going to go out and party their asses of. The country will socialize like crazy. Consider how the curve is going to look after a week of that.
I'm not deaf, I'm not blind and my memory is pretty strong. I know what I heard. If you guys wanted a lockdown for years, then that should have been the original proposal. That should have been on the table. Not a lockdown for a few weeks, and then retroactively moving that date back, adding more and more restrictions on what we can do, and then acting like we are fucking stupid for remembering what was originally proposed.
Those "professionals" told us that if we didn't lockdown and quarantine immediately, 2 million people would die. All 50 states would fail. Hospitals would be overflowing. Those are what the precious models said. Now they are being revised downward every week or so. From 2 million to 1, from 1 to 500k, 200k, now we are looking at numbers comparable to last years flu.
No one is saying go out and party like it's the apocalypse. We are saying reopen some shit. Allow me to take a fucking walk, maybe go to the park, buy a goddam coffee indoors. It's not asking a lot
