@Copper said in How the curve is now being viewed.:
Everyone (just about) underreacted before they overreacted.
Then there was the panic.
Sadly, we will never know how business as usual would have gone.
But, I think, most will be absolutely positive they know exactly how business as usual would have gone.
We do know that Florida and Louisiana were going to absolute disasters due to GOP leadership and suddenly they are doing great because one week of social distancing cured them.
Those two states went from Prime Time to nowhere to be found overnight.
But I paid 215. I didn't care. I saw the knockoffs on Amazon and they looked worse than fake. It was either burn masks (themselves bought dearly on eBay) or buy the thing.
Well it wasn’t 175k jobs in NY of course. But the structural shift of retail and jobs of course when there are none for gig workers. None of this Covid was knowable but just probably stings a lot more now.