DustyBin
Established Member
Yes it was that horribly dramatic lockdown that was needed to reverse an out of control soaring trend rather than merely slowing the trend. I have no doubt that a lot of the damage done could have been avoided if we had been more cautious in the beginning.
Again, this isn't what happened.... The data strongly supports the assertion that the first lockdown was implemented after infections had peaked.
There's a good argument that the peaks you wanted to avoid were actually caused by lockdowns. One of the points of our original pandemic plan was to allow infections to spread at a relatively steady rate, whilst building immunity and avoiding overwhelming peaks. What we did instead was self-defeating.