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> Part of the "crisis" feeling of the first wave was the unknown (and likely much higher) death count that could arrive if we didn't take action.

Maybe. To me 800-1,000/day was in itself a crisis and pretty frightening. The fact that we didn't get to 2,000+/day is ... better? but in the moment of April 2020 there was plenty of imminent fear versus fear of worsening.

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There were 2000+ COVID deaths a day for months. At its worst (January 2021) the US was seeing nearly 4000 COVID deaths a day.

I'm not sure what data I was looking at before, but my point was that we were near peak just a few months ago and yet perception about the state of the pandemic does not really match that.

In fact, per the CDC Feb 1, 2022 was the deadliest single day, but if you went out into the world that day versus Feb 1, 2021, you'd experience two vastly different things.

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