Is this the new template for the socialists? They have found a very innovative way to stop the healthy and productive with this lockdown. Is there any history for having entire nations (or cities) quarantining healthy people and not just sick people?
The goal of the lockdown was to flatten the curve. It has been more than sufficiently flat that hospitals are not overrun. Therefore everything can get opened up.
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Scram, anti-vaxxer!
Social distancing and flattening the curve are nonscientific concepts. Rather than science, the terms are propaganda trigger words designed to preempt thought and to allow leftist morons to scream the phrases in order to stifle dissent.
Did you see that article about everyone becoming “Karen”?
The Sunday paper had 8 pages of obituaries.
https://obits.nj.com/obituaries/starledger/browse?page=4
Shows pretty clearly the US has flattened the curve and is about to hit a downturn in average new cases per day.
My own charting of the CDC numbers is a little more ragged, I'm using a different smoothing algorithm. I believe this chart uses a rolling 7 day window average. I'm using exponential smoothing with a smoothing factor between .3 and .45.
Wasn’t this last week supposed to be the most horrible, awful, deadly, truly not good week ever?
What happened?
Even socialists need food on the table and basic living supplies. Eventually, they won't be able to get the basics, so I think they're content for now, watching the stock markets plummet. There's a grotesque thrill for them, seeing freedom and capitalism being disrupted.
The socialists with the long view here might be hoping for complete government control over the economy, and certainly to the end of Donald Trump as President, as a result of a prolonged shutdown. They see all the things Bernie has preached: green deals, basic income for everyone, government seizure of all profits, healthcare for all, including illegals. There won't be any "legals" or "non-legals" at that point--the country will be gone and overrun with anyone who thinks they can get a crumb of wealth from the American bounty.