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"Herd immunity is the natural immunity that builds up in a population when people (often younger and healthier members) are exposed to the virus, get ill, and then recover in large enough numbers"

... or die in large enough numbers. I am not willing to sacrifice my family and friends so people can make more money.

Instead of reopening, how about we restructure our society in a way that allows people to stay safe until we have a vaccine?

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>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.

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