[GreaterFool]

Here’s another question: isolation... and then what?

Sit at home until 2021 when we maybe have a vaccine?

I don’t see how we make this virus disappear so while I can see how people staying at home can stop the spread, what happens when they leave? Back to square one?

Maybe UK approach is better.

Maybe we should infect young people deliberately. Here’s Netflix, some books, some video games, some virus, stay at home for 2 weeks. Build up herd immunity. Get a paper, move on.

That’s UK approach except they wait for clusters to pop up. Why not make them? Control the infection rate.

If the chances are everyone gets infected would be better to chose when!

[smichel17]

Isolation is too slow the spread. Let the currently sick people get treated, then let the next wave of people catch the virus, once the hospitals have more capacity again. The virus is not that dangerous (under 1% fatality) as long as the healthcare system does not collapse.

[spookthesunset]

It really bothers me to see comments like this get buried. The comment asks a perfectly valid, well articulated question.

How long can these lockdowns continue before their costs outweigh their befits?

It should be safe and okay to question and criticize the actions society is taking right now. Groupthink is its own form of a virus and can be just as destructive, if not more destructive than a physical virus.