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we can easily get hung up on strategies and timings, but quite simply, if people social distanced, we wouldn't have the infection and death rate that we now have. That's what it all boils down to and that is dependent on so many specific individual factors. From a strategic stand point, the government could and should have done better, but people saying the death rate would have been much lower if, are speculating based on their own particular notions of what would have been better. We just don't know because that was not the avenue we went down at a particular point in time.