Well, since our son has never had it ,,, I have no idea when you started saying what you say you said, but some galoot making predictions without much knowledge isn't the smartest source of policy for the people who have the responsibility to shape what's actually done. Thousands of people made a million predictions.Complete strawman but correct. Everyone was getting covid. There was no avoiding it. That was always my basis for saying lockdown was stupid. Why lockdown when you cant stop it. The moment it left that lab, it was destined to infect every human.
Yes i know there would be a run on hospitals etc except that never happened. The naval ships and emergency pop up hospitals were never used. Many hospitalizations were due to the fearporn. Covid was spreading like wildfire months before we even bothered to lockdown and everything was normal until the fear started getting pumped into people's living rooms daily.
And there was a run on the hospitals. Who did you listen to for that one? Our niece started her internship in 2020 and hardly had a break that year. Another sister's daughter is a nurse and almost quit over the load.
I don't know where you get your information about the spread rates. You can just eyeball the stats about infections. Once it became an issue, COVID went from single digits to five digit daily diagnoses in weeks. So, this "wildfire" consisted of fractions of a case per week? Not exactly wildfire. More like a can of Sterno keeping a casserole warm. If COVID had spread like "wildfire" before they started tracking where were the sick people hiding? Hospitals keep track of novel viruses so these wildfire spreaders weren't going anywhere to be treated. Pain. Incredible difficulty in breathing. High fever. And nobody went to the hospital? Have you ever met an American?
COVID was difficult but it was better in some places than others. I doubt that was luck of the draw. Not over 2 years. What some places did and didn't do will be studied by epidemiologists for years.