The Herd Immunity Taboo – Tablet Magazine

You do realise that there can be multiple purposes for an action? The most pressing at the time the lock down was implemented was preventing the hospital system being overwhelmed, but there are others like allowing time for better treatments to be developed.

Looking at the infection rates even in Europe the idea of herd immunity was always doomed. Not even Sweden is anywhere near herd immunity and their economy is as trashed as their neighbours.

The idea is the at risk isolate until herd immunity is reached. So you’d actually want the healthy to get it as fast as possible.

It’s definitely an idea that’s up for debate but I feel your comment misrepresents the concept.

>I am not willing to sacrifice my family and friends so people can make more money.

you and your family can continue to stay locked down even after the lockdown is lifted for everybody else.

I think that at the current stage the total lockdown is kind of creates more damage than helps (among everything else there was that news that 80M children already missed vaccinations or something like this because of the lockdown). The people in the highly vulnerable group should definitely be locked down as much as possible until vaccine/treatment/etc. becomes available or until we reach herd immunity. The rest - whoever wants to stay locked down stays so, and whoever wants goes out and builds herd immunity.

The old, There’s no economy if everyone is dead argument.