@thecurious1...time will tell.
But this obsession with case rates is misleading ...its the hospitalizations and deaths that matter - surely you agree?
And referring to the article above that sought to hype this for their own purposes was this para: (underline is mine)
"Spencer Fox, associate director of the University of Texas COVID-19 Modeling Consortium, said he was surprised Texas had not passed New York in mortality sooner, since the northeastern state did a far better job limiting the spread of virus after it endured a horrific surge last spring.“They enacted really strong, precautionary measures that overall are well based in the available science,” Fox said. “It seems that many of the Texas policies were put in place to try and prevent health care collapse rather than trying to prevent transmission.”
Now...cast your mind back to the very beginning...the mantra was "suppress the curve"...ensure the hospital system can cope...this above all else was the policy basis
Was meant to last 15 days but its now seemingly endless but thats another story
But you can see even the author seemed to grasp the policy focus in the liberated states even if he was too dense or biased to see that he was making the very argument we were convinced of and what worked - at least as well if not a lot better - than in those that panicked and shut places don tight as a drum
