In fact, my current belief is that encouraging a so-called herd immunity not linked to a vaccine is a rather inhumane way of treating a disease. That was one of the first things Pence said, perhaps in the first briefing, that the older people are not going to be sacrificed in this effort, as Sweden has done (he didn’t say it quite that way).
I think the slow burn method, combined with massive use of anticoagulants, anti-inflammatories and HCQ/Z-pac/Zinc, etc. whenever appropriate, in addition to ramped up hospital capacity for both COVID and the “elective” procedures, is the least bad option. Said slow burn would be achieved by slowly re-opening the economy between now and Labor Day. I would have started the process on May 1.
There ARE no good options with this thing; only a variety of lousy ones.