“I am perfectly willing to accept the higher risk of mortality ...”
It should be more in the hands of the pre-elderly. How much money do they want to hand out to keep the elderly propped up?
The elderly can isolate until mass immunity is achieved and that sooner rather then later. The elderly and vulnerable won’t be safe until then.
What age do you consider elderly?
I could be considered “elderly”, I suppose-no one props me up, no one ever has-I’m healthy, organic diet, drug-free naturalist-I work full time managing my best friend’s construction business, and we are out of work due to this virus-I want/need to be on a jobsite, earning money-and there are plenty of people my age who work for themselves instead of golfing at the Villages or Dell Webb, sitting on the patio with grandkids etc-.
We want to get back to work-and those of us who have been doing our own grocery shopping have likely been exposed, and had few or no symptoms of the virus-most of us probably have some sort of immunity by now unless we are taking prescription drugs, have diabetes, are obese, etc-we’re part of the healthy herd of business owners and workers...