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user5994461 on April 28, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: The San Francisco Bay Area shelter-in-place order ...

If that's your comparison, the lockdown has been an outstanding failure because the virus is still spreading widely and pending to go exponential any day the lockdown is slightly relaxed. Heart surgery that can't prevent the heart attack.

ceejayoz on April 28, 2020 [–]

If we're going to abuse the analogy into irrelevance:

The heart surgeon is booked out for a few months. Avoid strenuous exercise until they're available to fix you.

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