Locking down only works as long as people lock down. Once the lockdown ends, the virus re-emerges. The repeated lockdowns continue until a vaccine is created.
Taking less serious measures - only locking down the elderly - creates heard immunity, albeit with a higher death rate.
The absolute lockdown we are doing now means the crisis will go on longer.
The short term pain solution would be accepting the higher fatality rate for heard immunity.
For the sake of my elderly parents, I’m glad we’re starting with a lockdown.
The short term pain solution would be accepting the higher fatality rate for heard immunity.
But it's a much higher mortality rate without the social distancing since the hospitals will be overwhelmed so the mortality rate will approach the hospitalization rate if 15 - 20%
Locking down only works as long as people lock down. Once the lockdown ends, the virus re-emerges. The repeated lockdowns continue until a vaccine is created.
Taking less serious measures - only locking down the elderly - creates heard immunity, albeit with a higher death rate.
The absolute lockdown we are doing now means the crisis will go on longer.
The short term pain solution would be accepting the higher fatality rate for heard immunity.
For the sake of my elderly parents, I’m glad we’re starting with a lockdown.