I’m with Dr. Phil. Due to the intense contagion of this new virus, and not to overwhelm our medical system, I have been ok with this month or so long quarantine. Now that we have treatments that work, we need to slowly open everything back up. The risk of the virus and being sick with a flu like illness is bad but so are a million other things we Americans have the freedom to do in our desire to pursue happiness.
We can weigh 500 lbs and buy whole pizzas and down them. We can rock climb without ropes. We can smoke 3 packs a day. We can drink a 5th of vodka. We can head to the gay bar or deep into the park and have unprotected anal sex with dozens of strangers. All legal and risky. Freedom is more important than perfect safety. Insert Ben Franklin quote here.
Re: “Due to the intense contagion of this new COVID virus...”
That remains to be proved.
Compare the COVID numbers to the influenza numbers...
The CDC estimates that 39 million to 56 million Americans were infected with seasonal influenza in the last 6 months, and that 24,000 to 62,000 of them died.
https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/preliminary-in-season-estimates.htm
According to the Johns Hopkins COVID Dashboard...
Total USA COVID Tests - 3.57 million
Total USA Positive COVID Tests - 707,000
https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/bda7594740fd40299423467b48e9ecf6
So, roughly, a 20% COVID infection test rate, even though most of those tests have been given to high risk individuals.
In California, Oregon, and Washington state, the infection rate has been less than 9% of tests since COVID first arrived.
Bottom Line...
COVID-19 looks exactly like a bad flu season - nothing more, nothing less.