I am concerned that we are way overdoing our response at this point. I think a more sensible way forward would be to ask our older population to impose upon themselves restrictive social distancing and wait out the pandemic while the vaccine is developed.
And others think a “more sensible way forward” is to let the virus run its course through the population without any mitigation or quarantine, anywhere.
Nobody is going to listen to them either, so you are not alone.
The “protect the old folks” approach sounds appealing, but unfortunately it will not work for this particular virus.
While old people are more likely to die from the virus, everyone is at risk for infection and possible hospitalization at close to the same rate.
As a result, under your proposal health care facilities throughout the country would be quickly overwhelmed with critically ill patients. This would put all of them at risk as well as anyone else who needed health care.
That would create many more deaths than those caused directly by the corona virus.
Big difference here. In the case of epidemiology, we have lots of recent and direct data / events to study. Yes, you’ll get some incomplete explanations (what happens with measures to limit spread not included, but those are really just arguments to limit spread.)
In the case of climate change, we have NO good instance of human style inputs to the system to study. The closest I know of is the “PETM”, and that was some 55 million years ago, and very hotly debated (as to cause) by AGW types.