I'm old enough to remember when we were told desperate measures were needed to "flatten the curve" - keep hospitals from being overrun. That was the only objective put before us. We were told there was no way to stop this incredibly contagious disease from spreading. https://twitter.com/RBPundit/status/1283739242934480897

A rise in the number of "cases" without a corresponding rise in hospitalizations and fatalities is the very definition of a flattened curve. It's success, as it was defined in March. Today's panic headlines are what the experts said they wanted to achieve four months ago.

Of course we'd all like to get the number of "cases" down - honestly, that term should be scare-quoted every time it's used until we are given a clear, universal, and verifiable definition of what a "case" means. People understandably want to avoid catching this bug.

But the reason we took drastic action in the spring was that a highly contagious disease that spreads through asymptomatic carriers is very difficult to contain after it gets loose in the general population. That's why we burned the economy down to flatten the curve.

It's very suspicious that the people in charge of informing us - bureaucrats and the media both - are falling all over themselves to avoid issuing reports that would clearly show the curve has been flattened successfully. Instead, they're playing shell games with data. /end