forgot 5. Covid was exactly the right amount of deadly, 0.5-1% which made it easy to "roll the dice" on making containment harder.

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jandrewrogers 30 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

The IFR for COVID was ~0.1%, about the same as measles.

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JumpCrisscross 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> Covid was exactly the right amount of deadly, 0.5-1%

Tough to say that's "exactly the right amount of deadly" for a pandemic when the Black Death and Spanish flu killed larger fractions of their total affected populations (in the latter case, of humans) [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_epidemics_and_pandemic...

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the__alchemist 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

It was good practice for pandemic response. I think (blasphemy, which on its own is wild) the global reaction was too strong on an acute level, but was worth it as prepararion for a deadlier pandemic.

	▲	amanaplanacanal 3 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		It was a natural reaction though. People saw the Italian hospitals overflowing and thought "oh crap! We can't let that happen here!" At least where I am they tightened and/or relaxed restrictions on a county by county level based on how full hospital beds were getting.
	▲	delecti 3 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		In another time it might have been good practice, but in reality I think, between the grifters pushing fear and those just too self-centered to go a few months without a haircut (yes oversimplifying and straw-manning), it actually precluded the chance that many people will ever cooperate with a pandemic response again.

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rob_c 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

and that's a whopping over-estimate