Replying to this and the above:
All true. Everywhere locked down. SC did from March to July. I remember driving to work on the interstate, usually packed, with nearly no one on the highway. And I agree, the lockdown saved lives.
Two points of contention:
- NYS is too NYS centric. Read my other note, above. Were lessons extracted from NYC to the rest of the country? Sure. But, the number 1 source of treatment and prevention data came from South Korea. They are the among the world's leaders in disease control. Treatments were being shared at the US DOD level in February, since US military doctors are intertwined with the RoK system. The bell curve associated with the build up and regression of COVID-19 is named after a US military disease control doctor, who was the top doctor for the US in the RoK.
- NYS could've let up back in the fall. DoD has mass data from movements and transitions, to include letting initial entry training Soldiers, Sailors, Marines, Airmen, leave basic training and go home for the holidays for two weeks. We had a minor uptick in positive COVID cases, which was gone in two weeks.