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Comment by ChicagoDave

Hindsight is 20/20. We didn’t know anything about Covid in the early months and the CDC was following plans designed to counter something closer to the 1917 Spanish Flu.

We should all be grateful they scared the crap out of us. What if a variant started killing kids? What if a variant started killing 25-35 year olds?

Read history. That’s what happened when the Spanish Flu came around for a second swing.

It wasn’t about being accurate. It was intentionally about over-reacting because we just didn’t know enough.

parent ChicagoDave 3 years ago

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