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Originally Posted by Adder
But they aren't. (See, also, Germany). They're mostly open and normal, except where they have to, sometimes only locally, lock down again for a bit to control community transmission again.
There are examples all over the world - including China - where things are mostly reopened with precautions, because they locked down enough to control community spread and then tested, traced and isolated.
We didn't, so we're still in uncontrolled community spread. Too many people have it and are spreading for us to be able to contact trace and isolate. We are a failure.
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There is no "we" here. Certain areas here have experienced wide community spread. Others have not.
I'm right next two two of the biggest hotbeds of Covid when it first appeared. Our governor imposed a strong lockdown and life here has pretty much gone on with minimal interruption (even during the lockdown).
Florida, OTOH, chose a different path, and, well... we know how that worked.
We were never going to be able to contact trace adequately in a country this large. China was only able to do it because it's authoritarian and could control its population within the cities where the virus appeared.
