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Lockdowns are not supposed to stop Covid-19; that's an impossible task without a vaccine. Lockdowns are needed to help prepare the health system in case it's caught unawares (although how that can still happen now is beyond me, but still) and avoid overcrowding hospitals and apocalyptic scenarios where doctors have to choose who gets access to ICUs and who does not.

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That was the original narrative I was sold as well. "Flatten the curve" and all the simulations showing how we'd all get it, but ideally slowly enough that it was manageable. But somewhere the narrative changed and, well, it's too late to push back or have any opinion other than "stopping covid entirely is more important than anything else right now".

> Lockdowns are not supposed to stop Covid-19

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