>>12266514In the end, hospitals were overwhelmed either way. A lot of people died from treatable causes unrelated to SARS2 which are not accounted in any published statistics. A relative of mine died from a diabetes complication that went untreated despite lockdown and "flatten the curve" bullshit, and was signed off as SARS2.
The whole approach was flawed from the start. The disease was not known, lethality wasn't well studied back then, chronic complications are still not known to this day. Why in heaven's fuck was there no effort to erradicate the disease before it fucking spread?
Erradication is simple. 6 weeks of closing down population movements to be on the safe side and further vigilance for outbreaks. If supplies are an issue, you can let logistics come and go with strict vigilance and decontamination. Not cheap at the start, but surely quicker to solve than to strangle the economy for years without a tangible solution in sight.
This was a sizeable biological threat. What can we hope for a response in the case of an actual terrorist spreading bacterial spores in a similar fashion? All we have now is the precedent that any kind of biological weapon will fuck up the entire humanity big time because nobody gives a shit about them.
