I agree with you that there is something that doesn't quite add up about the whole thing. In the UK they built several 1000+ bed temporary hospitals. Some time later and a one line mention somewhere that one of them was empty and I've never heard of them again. Presumably closed and dis-mantled.
Yes, most of the population did the decent thing and stayed at home for weeks. You could even count that they were never needed as a success. "Hope for the best, but plan for the worst" comes to mind.
But what about the Favellas in S. America? Too crowded to allow social distancing, with populations too poor to pay for PPE or medical attention. The media were anticipating swathes of those living in them getting infected, with huge numbers dying. Did that happen?
Even worse was the situation in India. Millions of day labourers living in crowded slums with similar lack of resources to S. America. Infections started to climb. Then the cities were locked down. Without work (and food) the millions poured out and crammed together at bus and train stations for days, then began walking back to their home-villages. Again a spreading wave of infections was expected to follow them across the country. Did that happen?
In some ways the whole thing seems almost like a drill, a dummy run or a dress rehearsal. Yes, many did end up in hospitals and significant numbers perished. But somehow millions of poor, possibly malnourished people, left to fend for themselves with little or no medical attention, protective gear or space to isolate just didn't get it. Although they were expected to be decimated, they weren't. That seems a tad odd to me. So do several other things about this Pandemic.
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