verslagen1 wrote on 03/18/20 at 13:57:54:You got this all wrong, this lockdown isn't to prevent the woohoo virus from spreading, it's to prevent everyone from catching at once and overwhelming hospitals.
Once a large enough population has caught it (and died or recovered) then there will be less of a chance that hospitals will be overwhelmed.
I understand that.
But not overwhelming the healthcare system one time doesn't necessarily solve the underlying problem.
With a huge cohort of folks suddenly coming out of isolation who are still liable to get infected and ill because the virus is still in the population, and those folks haven't had a chance to develop any natural immunity by being exposed ,whats to stop the whole cycle from starting all over again?
That's assuming there is no treatment developed by then. Or that the virus doesn't somehow simply disappear. That happens, but not always. Seasonal flu for example or the kiddie diseases I mentioned. The vaccines keep them at bay in this country but they are still around.
Pay attention to China in .say, about six weeks. If the WuFlu pops back up over there once everyone is back at work cranking out smartphones and sneakers, we'll know it's time for plan B.
And even if this sh*t doesn't turn out be be any different or worse than some of the pandemics of the past, as some folks seem to think, the
REACTION to it is certainly different. Whole books are gonna get written speculating about the reasons for that.