Many viruses have been eradicated from North America, because we refused to let them run their course. We went to war with them. Developed vaccines, tracked them down and quarantined them out of existence, eliminated their carriers.
The immune system might be a beautiful thing, but there is unacceptable collateral damage. Not getting viruses in the first place is even more beautiful.
Flu vaccines are a joke. We don’t know anyone who gets the flu shot and got the flu. It’s a feel good, cash cow tactic developed by the pharmaceutical industry.
They've been "working on" a vaccine for 35 years for HIV, and --- zilch.
The annual flu vaccine is *annual* because it mutates so fast nothing will give lasting immunity. This year's guess-and-guess-again flu vaccine is, what? Barely 40% effective?
Let's go with HCQ-type prophylaxis for healthcare workers, isolation of the contagious, and sequestering the most vulnerable populations --- elderly, people with comorbidity and their housemates, people living in group homes --- and the rest of us carry on.
Because if the economy collapses, we've got nothing for nobody..
You can't shrink economies without devastating insurance and healthcare systems and wrecking medical financing. Without modern healthcare systems we're back in the wards with Florence Nightingale and her herbs, alcohol, chlorine and soap.
The indigenous Americans were isolated from certain viruses, how well did that turn out?
Exposure is key.
Can you name one RNA-based virus that has been defeated, say, with a vaccine? I say defeated, not brought to a point where we simply pay no attention to the deaths, because they are no longer “novel”.