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Disagree, it was incredibly reckless. We still don’t fully understand the virus’ transmission vectors, R-values, etc. It very easily could have had a higher fatality rate or transmission rate potentially killing many more people. Claiming it’s a model of pragmatism is a post-hoc rationalization of poor policy.


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