Views from the Outside

 I assume that the various non-pharmaceutical interventions encouraged and imposed by governments at all levels had some effect on the spread of the coronavirus.  Obviously, they didn't "work" in the sense that so many people still got sick and died, but who knows if things would have been worse without them?  So maybe they provided some benefit for some people.  But are those the only things that work? The healthy trinity of Physical Distancing, Handwashing and Masks quickly became a dogma of the health-government complex.  And like the other theories of the pleroma, its membership is the same yesterday, today and tomorrow with no addition or subtraction.  However, there were signs early on that additional things might help. In the early stages of the virus, there was nothing else.  You'd just sit at home waiting to get sick, then if you got sick you'd go to the hospital and they'd tell you to go back home and come back when your lips turned blue.  And after