I continue to wonder why this panicdemic hasn’t occurred every year during the common flu season.
We
have seen instances in past years when a deadlier-than-normal flu virus was going around to make sure you got your shots, etc. Its just that there's a large amount of herd immunity to the flu... they aren't "novel" viruses. So they don't spread so easily, a large portion of the population can already resist them. Otoh, no one has immunity to covid-19 already. Everyone's going to catch it, its just a matter of when. If everyone catches it too quickly, then the hospitals get overwhelmed and people that
could have survived given a non-overwhelmed hospital system will die.
The latter outcome is still on the table given that we're re-opening too soon (virus referenced).
P.s. I'm well aware that what's too soon for the virus is too late for businesses. These two things are in conflict. What's too soon for defeating the virus is too late for the economy. That's just two facts the politicians are going to reconcile in all different ways. The correct question is: How many people do you want to die for the economy? Its really that simple. If you say, "none", then you're just as unrealistic as the people who think we should never have shut them down in the first place.
