if we had not locked down everywhere would have been like italy or nyc or worse. remember that deaths peaked at 2500 per day in the usa with a lockdown. thats 5x of a bad flu season with no lockdown.
NYC and surroundings are very different than FL are very different than California. I agree NYC was a complete disaster, but it doesn't follow that Dallas would have met the same fate.
Yes, and NYC locked down... imagine if NYC hadn't...
I'm in NYC and our biggest problem here is that our dumbass mayor and governor waited at least a week too late to shut everything down. If we'd locked down sooner we'd have had a lot fewer deaths and would be much further along the road of reopening already. One week on the front end is worth many weeks on the back end when you're talking exponential growth.