‘I’m not the one advocating deliberately infecting, and possibly killing other people.’
his/her point was that establishing the herd immunity concept was a better idea than wearing a marginally efficient face cloth; a point I believe as well...in fact thousands of others think so also; are we guilty of ‘deliberately infecting and killing people...’?
First off, human beings are not herd-animals -- we're indiduals with the inherent right to life. Attaining ‘herd immunity’ would require the infection of at least 200 million Americans. A death rate of only 1% would mean the deaths of 2 million Americans, before ‘herd immunity’. Worldwide, it would mean at least 60 million deaths. That's not even mentioning the suffering and debilitation of many millions more. Then, there's the medical cost — from $$ thousands up to $1 million/hospitalization.
In 1919, that might have been the best anyone could do. In 2020, we have a lot more tools in the box to fight this thing. Why settle for tens of millions of deaths, and trillions of dollars in costs, when we can do better?
So, yes — if you think that “the best thing you can do is spread it, if you have it” and act on that, you are deliberately infecting and killing people. There's just no other way to put it.
That's the worst of it. There's also the matter of a critical election — one that will affect the entire world for a long time to come. If this pandemic gets out of control again, in the USA, that's it for Trump. I would rather not see millions of dead Americans, and I really want Trump to get reelected, so he can finish what he started. With ‘supporters’ like the flu-bros here, Trump doesn't need political enemies (even though he has way more than his share of those already).