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Originally Posted by GGG
What does better place mean?
I agree that potentially we could have saved healthcare dollars by flattening the peak and lengthening the duration. Whether this would have been a good economic or social choice I have no idea
I think the question of would we have saved lives is an open one.
Do you save lives if you can reduce the number of times a person is infected with Covid over their lifetime and does flattening peaks with health measures accomplish this? How best to time boosters with outbreaks? Essentially how to we optimize the infection of the public with each wave of the disease.
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We can clearly reduce the impact of covid in the population. But I think at this point, the cost/benefit scale is a lot different than pre-vaccine or even Omicron/later variants.
You can put in the same lockdown restrictions we had pre-vaccine but the benefits are going to be a lot less. And if you really want to contain something as contagious as these new variants - you'd need to go even stricter on the restrictions than previous and try the China like restrictions which just wouldn't fly here (and also are stupid).