Someone please explain to me how shutting down will, in the long term, save lives and prevent people from eventually getting the virus.
Seems to me it will only greatly prolong the disastrous effects, thus inflicting far more damage on the economy and lives in the long run......
Seems to me let it run its course, and it will be gone soon. Devastating effects, yes. But less than the path we are taking.......IMHO.....
But then, what do I know?
“Someone please explain to me how shutting down will, in the long term, save lives”
By spreading out serious infections and preventing more cases at one time than there are hospital beds.
“and prevent people from eventually getting the virus.”
The lower we make R0, the fewer people ever get the virus: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3506030/
We don’t yet know if survivors have immunity. There are many reports of re infection from inside China and Hong Kong, and that the second time around it’s worse. If true, that completely discredits the “herd immunity” strategy. We need a vaccine.