Maybe instead of shutting down everything, maybe they can quarantine nursing homes. Maybe instead of telling everybody to stay home, tell people over 50 to stay home.
And healthcare professionals? They need to stay home too? Plus, their families.... because if their families come into contact, then they will get it too.
So... let’s try and run down the list here....
Healthcare workers... including clinics, not just hospitals...
Fire departments...
Ambulance attendants...
Anyone who might clean the houses of those folks....
Any office people who may work for any of those people... HR... receptionists....
The plumber who unclogged the doctor’s shitter is now locked dow for 3 weeks... as well as the plumber’s family...
All these people and their families must be locked down. But not you. You may go to the bar. Any planes that take nurses to service remote communities... those pilots must be locked down now, and their families.... So now that pilot that took the nurse to a remote community can’t take surveyors out to do their work of course... that’s the nurse’s pilot. At least for 3 weeks anyway...
Kimmy, your strategy gets unworkable really quickly. If it was a realistic solution, brighter minds than your’s (the pandemic experts) would have thought of it.
Your pandemic strategy boils down to wishful thinking.
This is financially ruinous for huge numbers of people. And the stuff that is being most affected by coronavirus and the shutdown is stuff that young people rely on for employment. More than anybody else, young people are affected by the shutdown of retail, restaurants, hospitality, tourism. Pension money and old age security will keep on coming for the boomers and their elderly parents, but paychecks are stopping for an awful lot of young people. When do colleges and universities reopen? How do people finish their degrees in the social distancing era?
While we shut down everything so that septuagenarians get the chance to become octogenarians, young people are being **** over once again.
I guess killing off the old people would work, if you completely ignore the fact that so many sick people would overwhelm the medical system and cause a much higher death rate than otherwise., while also ignoring what millions of people getting sick at the same time would do to the economy anyway.
Again, this is wishful thinking that if we let the old farts die, anyone under 45 would be just fine.