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Not to start a hell thread, but how exactly did the lockdowns save any lives?

> HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Republican lawmakers in Pennsylvania on Thursday used a hearing to ask Gov. Tom Wolf’s top health official whether it was a mistake to order COVID-19 patients to be readmitted to nursing homes

https://apnews.com/article/pennsylvania-tom-wolf-coronavirus-pandemic-nursing-homes-7f4438604ef33677ba131b9cdddf1f2d

1. Virus is spreading
2. Hide inside for a while
3. Stop hiding inside
4. Disease is still out there
5. ?
6. Lives saved.

Don't forget this bit of human genius:

https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/articles/2020-04-30/georgia-drivers-can-get-a-license-without-road-test-during-covid-19

> Georgia Residents Can Get a Driver’s License Without Taking Road Test

(How long until this stuff gets memory holed and you get called crazy for remembering it correctly?)

Reduced spread of a transmissible disease

Did it reduce the spread? Or did it delay the spread?

“There are no solutions. There are only trade-offs.”

Assuming the vaccines worked.

What is the best evidence that exists showing they were effective against a constantly mutating virus?

@threalist @dave they didn't, but distancing and cleaning stuff did.