Dear Syag,
You are probably right on that. I did not think the example through. But the point is the same. The same potency of the virus will play out again and again and again. With time, we will be able to track most of the differences to see what helped and what harmed. And we will reach that understanding when the disparity of the number of infected/hospitalized/deaths meet the variables that were introduced differently in different places. [There will always be some phenomenon and accounts that will remain without an explanation. That is because we are humans and have limited control.] Getting back to Coumo, the virus that infected the nursing homes was the same as the virus everywhere else. The question is how it got there, and there is no clear answer. It seems to be a bad policy,yet it is still in effect. (But not in NY.) But it is not definitively a bad policy. And it is not clear from any data point if it was the cause for the large number of nursing home deaths. There is still a lot of data that needs to be explained. For example, NJ’s nursing homes were hit a lot harder than any other state. Almost double New York’s percentage of deaths. If there is political fallout from the pandemic, it should wait. Even for the President.
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