It’s really quite shocking. They’re literally gauging how comfortable we are with death and adjusting policies by our levels of comfort. It’s not “save every life you can” it’s “how many dead will they accept”. Is 14k more dead okay to open a week earlier? It is, okay, kill them. When we are comfortable with this new 74k number they will adjust that up too. Then they will just say the projections were wrong. We’re already seeing it. The president today “well the early projections were 2-3 million” yeah, so we adjusted our behavior. “Then it was 100 thousand to 200 thousand” yeah, so we adjusted our behavior. We got it down to 60 thousand and now we are adjusting our behavior in the wrong direction. I just hope the rest of the word is smarter than we are, it’s not asking much. They should see how quickly the numbers can change because it just happened! February 28th the president said “It’s 15, it will be zero soon, we’ve done a great job”. Have we really forgotten this in 2 months?
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