Originally Posted by
Frank_B
I think I was with your frame of thought until a day or two ago. Then I realized something. Let’s take NYC: They’ll be on lockdown till, I don’t know... let’s say June 1st. Then things in the busiest city in America start moving again. Eventually, flights will open back up. And, now let’s say some asymptomatic asshole from another country coughs on a subway hand rail. The whole thing starts all over again. What do we do? Just keep shutting the city and the country down time and time again? Do we just repeat the same process until everyone gets it anyway?! We’re just delaying the inevitable.
How about this... How about we let those under 55 with no discernible health conditions have a CHOICE. That’s the vast majority of America’s workforce. You’re over 55 or have a chronic health condition? Stay home. You can go out if you like, but you’re “forgiven” (let the bureaucrats work out what that means) if you stay home. Let the rest of us go out and build herd immunity. Do some of us die? Yeah... But then again... They’d have probably died anyway, Just six months down the road when their furloughed infection finally came back to haunt them.