Colleen27
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- Mar 31, 2007
Part of me (and maybe I’m not alone in this thought) wonders if all of the lockdowns and precautions of the past year have even mattered. Would the virus have just done what it wanted to do anyway. Are we just prolonging the inevitable and dragging it out instead of ripping the Bandaid off? Then the other part of me thinks, no of course we have helped prevent what could have been many many more deaths by distancing and masking.
I don’t know...just thinking out loud.
I've been wondering about that for months, as first we saw California spike despite tightest-in-the-nation rules and now we're seeing Texas continue to decline and Florida holding steady despite being wide-open while in Michigan we're spiking again with quite a few restrictions still in place (though not as many as over the winter). And the same pattern seems to be happening in Europe, where tighter lockdowns than anything we've done in the US haven't headed off a new wave of cases. I don't think a "pulling the band aid off" approach would have been better because of the consequences of strained health care systems, but I do question how much any of the lockdown measures really help with controlling the virus.