-Hospitals will be overwhelmed, so we need to flatten the curve for 2 weeks
-Hospitals are not overwhelmed, so now we need to lower the "R value", which is an indicator of how fast the disease spreads
-The R value actually looks very good, so let's just count deaths, it looks scary
-Not many deaths, so now we need to look at "cases"/incidences, ignoring the number of tests performed of course
-We need to be below 100 cases per 100k inhabitants of a randomly defined region; no it's 50; no 30; ****, we reached that number, so let's make it 10...
- Incidences are so stubbornly low goddammit, so now let's look at some new complicated number that involves models we can just make up
-Herd immunity doesn't help, forget it
- Except that it does help if immunity comes from the vaccine
-We need 50% vaccination rate, oh no 60, nah, 80
- Vaccination rate is actually pretty high, so herd immunity doesn't work anymore, because the unvaxxed are factories for new variants
-Ergo - lockdowns and masks are always necessary, no matter what happens in reality!