re: CDC releases new estimates of Coronavirus fatality rate

From day one, even an idiot like me could see that a lockdown wasn’t necessary. That all you had to do was protect the vulnerable by social distancing from them as much as reasonable while washing hands more and having people actually stay home when sick. That’s all that was necessary even based on the early data. The only “overrun” area was northern Italy which was due to a multitude of factors that don’t exist anywhere else. Many Chinese nationalists returning home from the new year... more than anywhere else, a very dense older population... older than anywhere else, and a system that was in no way prepared to care for any spike in icu needs... one of the lowest per capita in the world. But that’s not what people react to. All they see is mobile triage being full and ignore what’s really going on and why it’s happening there.