Re: D1.1 genotype H5N1

On 2/11/2025 10:20 AM, JTEM wrote:

  RonO wrote:
 

Obviously, it is you that was on another planet.  The US never had lockdowns like China.  What happened was sparse and ineffective because

 There is zero room to argue here. The lockdowns were excessive.
The cost was extreme. The benefit was nil. The whole damn thing
was a foreseeable & foreseen mistake, assuming they weren't
intentionally trying to "Reset" the economy.
  

What planet were you living on?  There never was a centralized plan to control the infection in the US.  Actions like lockdowns were sporadic and varied from state to state, and were pretty minimal when they were implemented.  Arkansas tried, but neighboring states like Oklahoma decided not to do it, so nothing much changed in Arkansas due to boardering states with larger populations not doing much at all. Testing and contact tracing were never really implemented population wide, and states were pretty much on their own in terms of trying to get their people tested.  Companies like mine had to implement their own contact tracing and testing program months after it should have been started after commercial testing became available.  Just recall how long it was before the Biden administration gave everyone free Covid tests. nearly a million people (probably more just were not counted) had died by then.
China tested whole city populations (10s of millions in each group), isolated infected, and cleared Covid from their country early in the pandemic, but the virus eventually came back (my guess is that some of it came in with frozen food processed in other countries).  No one else did that, and the whole world, including China, is still suffering because of that failure.
Ron Okimoto