Around 60,000 have died with CV-19 so far. This is approx 1 in a 1000 of the population. Most people know nobody who has died as a consequence, they probably don't even know someone who knows someone who has died.
For most below the age of ~40 it is a massive inconvenience and financial burden for no real benefit. It is a disease of the elderly and vulnerable.
So the argument for a two stream strategy is quite compelling:
- the young and healthy need to get infected and immune ASAP - let it rip
- we need to support older and vulnerable people to enable them to ride out the storm
Encourage parties, packed bars and restaurants, theatres, sport, etc etc.
If half the population are immune within the space of a few months (that's all it would take), herd immunity begins to kick in for the benefit of all.
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