I& #39;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">https://twitter.com/RBPundit/...

A rise in the number of "cases" without a corresponding rise in hospitalizations and fatalities is the very definition of a flattened curve. It& #39;s success, as it was defined in March. Today& #39;s panic headlines are what the experts said they wanted to achieve four months ago.

Of course we& #39;d all like to get the number of "cases" down - honestly, that term should be scare-quoted every time it& #39;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& #39;s why we burned the economy down to flatten the curve.

It& #39;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& #39;re playing shell games with data. /end