From JustTheNews.com…..
A year ago the first COVID-19 lockdowns swept across the country, bringing much of the nation to a standstill, creating historically high levels of unemployment, closing schools in some cases for a full year, and confining tens of millions of people to their homes lest close proximity to friends and neighbors help spread the coronavirus.
Much of those decisions — the shutdowns, the capacity limits at grocery stores, the masking orders, the directives for Americans to remain six feet apart at all times even while outdoors — were driven by dire predictions that a massive COVID surge was just around the corner.
Experts and authorities warned that Americans could be hospitalized with the disease in numbers that would overwhelm state hospital capacities, leading to the potential collapse of the medical system and even more fatalities from the resultant fallout.
