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True. That's why those who are vulnerable to this virus should still be careful. However it would be best IMO to let it run its course thru the young and healthy so they can get it and get over it. There's no vaccine. The only vaccine is getting it and getting better. Once that happens the virus won't be able to pass person to person so easily until it finds someone it can kill. Might a few otherwise healthy people die? Maybe. But people die in traffic accidents too and we don't take every car off the road.

As of right now, there's no solid evidence that once you get COVID-19 you're then immune to it forever. It's an extremely complex corona virus that's unparalleled in modern history. They've already discovered that the one rampaging through the US is actually different than the one that started in Wuhan. So it's mutating. The whole idea of herd immunity isn't really backed by science. And to be completely honest, I'm one of those "young and healthy" and I don't want to be used as an experiment. Tons of young people who don't have any underlying medical issues have died alone in a hospital fighting this disease.

I know it's frustrating for all of us. None of us want to be living like this. But personally, I'm not ready to sacrifice mine or my family's health for the sake of the economy. And the idea that a recession is worse than the potential effects of this disease is false. 250,000 people have already died worldwide. Unless we continue to practice extreme caution, we're talking millions dead. At its current rate, it's essentially like having a 9/11 body count every single day. The models are truly terrifying. And thank god, we were able to slow the spread and it hasn't been as bad. And the fact that it hasn't hit your community hard is a miracle, and shows that this kind of precaution needs to continue.

That doesn't mean that we need to be completely shuttered, but we need to maintain extremely strict social distancing and occupancy limits, make millions more tests available and track cases carefully. Unfortunately, this is our new normal for the foreseeable future.

I don't care where you land on the political spectrum, but I hope we can all agree that we should be listening to doctors and public health officials instead of politicians going forward. No matter the letter after their name, they're all looking out for their own interests, IMO. Which means they don't care about the lives of you or me.