[duxup]

I duno man the 'immunity may not even be long lasting' could be true but bringing that up seems like a weird sort of pseudo assumption too...

[intotheabyss]

No, it's a matter of assessing risk. Why would you risk infecting your entire population with a novel virus that kills on the order of 1% of all infected, when you can do shutdowns and perform slow reopenings to limit spread below 5% of the population until vaccination?

We should be assuming that immunity doens't last long and basing all policies on that assumption until proven otherwise.

[duxup]

I think you're pretty far off from what I was talking.

I wasn't encouraging infecting everyone intentionally.

I was noting the ongoing scale of effort required to protect everyone you keep a large % of the population unexposed.

>We should be assuming that immunity doens't last long and basing all policies on that assumption until proven otherwise.

I don't think that assumption makes sense at all with modern medical science.