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Originally Posted by PeteMoss
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).
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Does that reduce impact or just delay the impact? The previous concept was reduce spread because a vaccine would significantly reduce harm as the disease worked its way through the population. Now you aren’t delaying for anything so does flattening reduce total infections?