Leave kids in school. 100% isolate the elderly, sickly. Allow the virus to spread through the healthy community. This would drop the death rate to ~0.02%. Once the healthy people have acquired the virus and built an immunity to subsequent infections (~3 months) the rate of transmission would be significantly reduced. At that time, go state by state reducing elderly isolation.
Flattening the curve for all infections is not the key. The key is to flatten the infection rate of those that would require hospitalization.
A vaccine will take months to develop, months afterwards to mfg, months later to inoculate everyone.
Are we going to keep the country shut down for a year?
I am not sorry to be a boomer - couple of generations post WW2. Do Not even suggest that you are going to imprison me for my age - there aren't enough of you! Most of us old codgers are vets, we will not condone this.
Nope. Just until Donald Trump is no longer President. He can end this pandemic now, if he just resigns!
Then, we'll do it all again, every time a Republican is President.
*Panic-Demic
Dem-panic.
This will overwhelm the hospitals
20% require some kind of hospitalization even if they eventually recover
That's not true at all, there's a 95 % recovery rate, 90% are mild symptoms, and so far it's less than 1% hospitalization rate for healthy people. For fucks sake stop living in a fictional movie
That's incorrect sir, not even close. If that were the case our hospitals would be overrun by now
Unfortunately what you describe is not possible. Many elderly people live in households with younger people and can't be isolated. Most require more than average medical care and need to interact with doctors, nurses, physical therapists, etc.
The other thing to consider is that you don't go from .02% to high risk. It's a sliding scale. In your 40s the risk is a bit higher, in your 50's higher still, and so on. Most of our economy is make up of businesses run by people who are in their 50's and 60's, so totally isolating all of them would be extremely difficult.
Don't isolatenthe healthy older folks, so far even healthy elderly are able to best this easily with no hospitalization needed
Not exactly true. At least 10 to 20 percent of older folks would need to be hospitalized, even though it won't kill them. This would overwhelm the hospitals, and once that happened, a lot of people who would normally survive will start dying.
I'm not sure why people here who have no clue what they are talking about think they know how to handle a pandemic better than experts who have been studying it all their lives.