Anatomy of a standard #COVID19 response:
1. Recommend cancellation of elective procedures, causing financial strain on hospitals which in turn results in layoffs
2. Vastly overestimate the efficacy of masks and mask mandates, creating overreliance on unproven prevention methods
1. Recommend cancellation of elective procedures, causing financial strain on hospitals which in turn results in layoffs
2. Vastly overestimate the efficacy of masks and mask mandates, creating overreliance on unproven prevention methods
3. "Cases" eventually go up anyway (highly contagious+PCR tests), public officials blame the public for not "following the rules" re: masks
4. Layoffs from step 1 result in reduced number of beds that can be staffed when virus inevitably peaks, straining hospital workers
4. Layoffs from step 1 result in reduced number of beds that can be staffed when virus inevitably peaks, straining hospital workers
5. Media provide anecdotal horror stories of hospitals filling up but does not accurately reflect the big picture of the number of hospital beds available in an area
6. Virus spread eventually slows, regardless of what NPIs were put in place and at what time
6. Virus spread eventually slows, regardless of what NPIs were put in place and at what time
7. Media/politicians/health officials push that NPIs were what slowed the spread vs. seasonality/community-level resistance
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