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You missed the point. Now that infections have spread so far, the level of lockdowns that would be necessary to bring the outbreak down to that level aren't even possible in an open society. But it will be a good approach to try during the early stage of the next pandemic.


I admire your optimism that the people in charge might learn from this when they clearly haven't[1] from the last few.

[1] Excepting places like Taiwan, etc., who clearly did learn.




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