• Zuberi@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    You forget if we had been inside for 2-4 weeks it would have been over.

    Plenty of other nations were done with it well before us.

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      11 months ago

      No. You would have had to keep every citizen from every country inside for 2-4 weeks and enforce incredibly strict N95/KN95-only mask policies. If you have a single city not doing zero-COVID in this scenario, you lose containment.

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          11 months ago

          You seem to be stating if the US response had been 2-4 week strict lockdowns that we would have eradicated COVID.

          I am telling you no, it wouldn’t have prevented much unless every single human being on the planet was also in lockdown for the exact same 2-4 week period.

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            11 months ago

            Seemed to work for so many countries but sure let’s go w/ that lol. Americans will die on any/every hill.