You are never going to get them to see that eighty thousand people dying in about months time is more than a seasonal flu type illness. They'll completely ignore that the flu season starts in September and runs through May with half that amount of people actually being documented as having died from the flu or complications of the flu or getting pneumonia from the flu. The CDC for two years after a flu season go over all death records and adds people who died of any respiratory illness during the flu season and list them under dying of complications of the flu and same with those who die of pneumonia during the flu season only they get listed under flu and pneumonia deaths. They do that they claim because some people may have gotten the flu but got over the flu before ending up going to the hospital as a result of their respiratory illness still being out of control to contain after fighting off the flu but there's no trace of the flu virus left at that point. Anti vaxxers will tell you it's because they want to heighten the number of deaths for the flu so they can continue to push vaccines. You will never get them either to see the impact this has on people with pre existing conditions. I've been around and around with many bloggers on this point to no avail. I've told them my son's girlfriends father has Wegeners Disease, if he lives until Nov 2021 he'll be the longest living survivor of the disease. He in no way, shape or form at this point to fight off an infection with this disease, that's how compromised he is right now. If he got this virus and ended up dying they don't even want to consider that the virus did him in despite the fact that if he hadn't gotten it he'd still be alive. He would have been listed as dying from Wegeners disease complicated by the flu. So Wegeners and Covid would be on his death certificate but according to them it should not be.
They will also push Sweden as a model of everything done right when they run a death toll ten percent higher than Denmark and Finland. They'll then argue that the Netherlander and other area's outranked Sweden without putting into perspective land mass and density of the population. They also completely ignore that Sweden has the highest population of single individuals living to a household. With family spread being the fastest way it spreads then you can't give it to someone in the household if there is no one else living there with you. Sweden is one of the smallest populations that are trailing right behind some of the largest populations in the world when it comes to tracking deaths.
There really was a limited amount of time before this virus was going to roll on shore here in the US, they did the proper thing getting people out of harms way. There's an old saying that goes prepare for the worse and hope for the best. That's what they did. Just like the old saying better to be safe than sorry. A lot of this was about not over whelming the medical facilities, now most facilities have the equipment and some have expanded their capacities, like here one of our hospitals when they built an office/research facility across from them they did it in a fashion that it could be easily converted to use for any potential emergency that would require additional capacity. Now they are stocked and ready. It's true the world can't hide forever and we have to move forward but the way this virus came barreling down on the world I think they did a good job moving people out of harms way and it saved many lives, we do have to move forward though as the other old saying goes the cure can't be worse than the disease and I think they've had time to think and implement plans now that they didn't have before this came rushing down on us.