“The definition of herd immunity is a certain percentage of people contract a virus ( or gets vaccinated), and when you get to a certain number, it protects the vulnerable.”
And if you do it all at once it crashes the HCS and then the economy. And 1 in 11 people die. Which permanently destroys the HCS and creates a depression.
So a metered approach is best while we develop countermeasures such as a vaccine, treatments such as HCQ+AZT, and build the friggin’ ventilators and other medical items we will need and make the drugs we will use.
What’s so hard about that?
Build what we need now. Make the drugs used to treat. Develop vaccine for future inoculations.
Gradually expose the population, keeping the case load low enough so that our HCS, now going into war mode, can sustain the load and respond to hotspots. That way, the 1.something% CFR, like in South Korea, which is horrible enough, does not become the 9.something% CFR, like in Italy.
What’s so hard about that, either?
And how are people going to support their families and eat?
It is a trade off.
The majority of deaths are in the 70 plus age group, so it probably will not crash the economy, as harsh as that may sound.
Right now, we have a quarantine order. People are still socializing here in WA state.
The only way to stall it is do as China did. Lock people in their homes.