If we’re lucky - we got right to the brink of disaster (in terms of hospitals being overrun and increased mortality due to sheer overwhelmed systems) and the cases decrease naturally with time and burning itself out. If we’re unlucky - we are in for a very scary next few months. I hope and think the former will be the case, it is entirely feasible that the latter will occur. The prudent thing to do at this point is shut things down (here in the high prevalence zones) until things are somewhat under better control. Not forever, but for some reasonable amount of time until hospitals and cases decrease to a scientifically safer level.
I share your hope, but not your optimism. I don't think you'll see the shut downs you think are necessary, and I don't even think you'll see the basic precautions that are crucial to avoid a spiral. I really hope I'm wrong.
The former is what happened in NY, so hopefully its the same and things don't get too crazy.
The former happened in NY only through Draconian measures, and much more widespread compliance than we're seeing in FL right now. We're as open now in Phase 2 with record high cases and shrinking hospital resources as NY is now in Phase 3 with under 1000 cases per day and relatively few Covid hospitalizations.