So do we wait for a vaccine? Of course we wont. Thered be nothing left.
I expect we will get back to work and end this shutdown in 3-4 weeks.
about waiting:
1. The teeter-tooter of balancing the cost and benefit of waiting (i.e., postponing life) is continually changing.
2. Slowing the invasion makes sense even if there were no prospect of ever developing a test, a treatment, or a vaccine, so we have time to gear up to deal with what we are facing.
3. With a test, as we now have, we can make reasoned decisions as to how to segregate those among us who are contagious from the rest of us. A test, even without a treatment, changes things.
4. With a treatment, the cost of taking a risk dramatically falls. This is why President Trump describes a proven anti-malaria drug as a potential game changer.
5. With a vaccine (and the development of herd immunity) we’d be back to normal.
So, no, we do not wait for a vaccine. Generally, people who seek to balance cost and benefit hardly ever say such things; but, often are criticize by those who are only sensitive to one or the other side of the equation.