not sure what you are saying. Swine flu as an example, school and complete societal shutdown probably would have reduced it's spread,but because it didn't happen,conclusions would be speculative.Shut it down forever. Nobody cares.
Oh, and Swine flu killed more than 12,000 in the US... mostly kids. Thank God the schools were shut for the 2010/2011 school year or it probably would have been far worse.
California shutting down had documented success. World wide,insistent illustrations of what shut downs and a cooperative population can achieve. The U.S.is obviously unique. Getting bizarre,dangerous and false information from the federal leadership. Any details about the messages received from the top federal leader were wrong and have stay surprisingly consistently inaccurate.
Masks
social distancing
Mass gatherings
References to the US constitution for direct medical advice
We have decent estimations of infections,so sound science and proven positive techniques,that have been proven effective this year,in this Covid 19 pandemic have yet to be implemented.
Identify who is infected and who is not via widespread timely testing. And w those results take actions for both groups, with rapid isolation and treatment for those found positive for the virus. Repeat the process until the country as a whole has stability.
An admission of missteps is probably paramount for progress. Take any other nation big or small that has successfully kept the virus at a controllable level,two or three things become apparent immediately, masks,isolation and messaging.
As of this week,masks are not a norm nationwide and the top executive in the US government has stated that the virus will go away by itself.
So until we agree..and this is something that is more important than everything else..until the top leadership agree that we have a problem,and what that problem is called..there are multiple names, Covid-19 and novel coronavirus but any name combination that includes flu,influenza or some race based name like kung flu are off message,inaccurate and confusing to many in the public. For most worldwide,watching the US fight among each other about wearing masks and those strange arguments are still taking place within a select small Corona virus task force of the federal government.
so until we agree that we are combating one virus,w a common name,until we agree on a national approach for the declared war, and until a consistent message is given nationwide we will probably continue to find ourselves on or near square one.
It is my personal hope that our national strategy is NOT what has been stated by the top U.S.Executive..a vaccine. The basic premise of doing nothing coordinated but instead waiting for a vaccination doesn't look to be a sound solution.