>>11664825the time for containment was in December when China was denying it existed. By January it had already spread all over the world. "Containment" and "slow the virus" are two completely different things. "Flattening the curve" does not imply infecting fewer people. It's an acceptance that a certain number of people will be infected. It's about the load on the healthcare infrastructure so that nobody dies due to lack of supplies or facilities for care—the real tragic deaths.
Now that the threat on healthcare infrastructure is gone, the quarantine is based on a conceptual misunderstanding of what the quarantine was for to begin with.
