Unfortunate you’re getting downvoted. Flattening the curve was about limiting cases so hospitals don’t get overrun. Now they’re trying to eradicate the virus which isn’t going to happen unless you lock everyone down for over a a year.
You can’t lock down the healthy in America for a year to protect the weak. Those in fear think this is going to end soon but it isn’t. Instead, people need to decide how to live their lives in our new, fundamentally unsafe pandemic society.
One of my acquaintances, hasn’t paid rent last month, and frequents food banks now. The promised relief checks have yet to arrive too.
The job market post pandemic looks like it will be pretty rough, so the longer this goes on without relief the more debt people will incur.
I am personally not against continuing the lockdown, even though it’s deeply emotionally draining, but the government needs to consistently provide money for people to live, or else simple desperation is going to become a wide spread problem.
https://www.sccgov.org/sites/covid19/Pages/dashboard.aspx#ho...
It's all about Governor Newsom running for President now.
Based on the data I've seen, all we need to end the lockdown now is provide and wear a mask, and ground pax airlines until we confirm herd immunity.
I agree that was one of the more widely repeated intentions, but ascribing it to every national and state official is inaccurate. The White House's recommendation for lockdowns was primarily motivated by Imperial College's worst-case death projections[1], not the hospitalization numbers.
[1] https://www.politico.com/news/2020/03/29/inside-the-white-ho...