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Originally Posted by Kushan
Can you explain how going into lockdown later means we get a less substatial second wave?
There's plenty of ways to avoid the virus without going into permanent lockdown:
Practice social distancing. Wear a mask. Wash your hands.
Super simple stuff, but too many people aren't doing it, too many people think they know better, or that it's a scam, or that there's worse things to get. If you want to avoid lockdown after lockdown, get people to do the super simple stuff and fine/arrest those who refuse.
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Some, including jfman, say that we locked down too late, allowing the virus to take hold. It has been calculated that this resulted in the peak being not far short of what it would have been had we done nothing. If that is correct then it has probably brought down already most of those who were going to die anyway. That means there will probably be no second wave, unless of course the virus mutates, in which case anything could happen.
This would explain why other countries that locked down earlier have a second wave now - it is attacking those now who would have got it had it not been for the lockdown.
On your second point about social distancing, etc, isn't that what we are doing now?