We did have a "real lockdown" for 4-6 weeks back in March/April 2020. The problem is that a lockdown isn't enough. You have to provide places to isolate people, away from healthy household members as much as possible, as well as robust contact tracing and both targeting and mass testing. "Everybody STAY HOME" and ride it out doesn't work - it takes way, way longer than "two week" or even "six weeks" for a serious outbreak to die down without actual intervention, not just isolation. Vietnam was doing testing of 3rd and 4th degree contacts, for instance. In America, we just did cargo cult bullshit.
Good points, although I don't know how "real" the lockdown was. Maybe it was real in a few cities, but in a lot of places you had Gamestops open and a good chunk of people still having parties.
We did have a "real lockdown" for 4-6 weeks back in March/April 2020. The problem is that a lockdown isn't enough. You have to provide places to isolate people, away from healthy household members as much as possible, as well as robust contact tracing and both targeting and mass testing. "Everybody STAY HOME" and ride it out doesn't work - it takes way, way longer than "two week" or even "six weeks" for a serious outbreak to die down without actual intervention, not just isolation. Vietnam was doing testing of 3rd and 4th degree contacts, for instance. In America, we just did cargo cult bullshit.
Good points, although I don't know how "real" the lockdown was. Maybe it was real in a few cities, but in a lot of places you had Gamestops open and a good chunk of people still having parties.