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[quote=Anonymous]The longer the virus persists the more we realize a higher percentage are asymptomatic and the less lethal the virus is. This is becoming increasingly clear as time goes on. The high risk categories have not changed, they remain predominately the elderly with certain categories of preexisting health problems, as well as some younger people with preexisting health problems. For the rest of society, the virus is not lethal. For the vast majority, it results in no more than mild flu symptoms. A shutdown approach that treated a healthy 30 year old person with no health problems the same as an 80 year old person with advanced heart disease or diabetes was only to buy some time at the beginning but cannot work for much longer.

The sensible course of event is to quarantine the nursing homes and other communities of high-risk residents, and younger people who know they fall into the high risk categories and their families should be given assistance to continue quarantining themselves, from both employers, schools and government. Testing should be first and foremost focused on the support staff of the nursing homes and hospitals. It seems as if much of the lethal increase in deaths is directly tied to outbreaks in nursing homes rather than the population at large. Testing the population at large is meaningless as it only works if you test everyone every day.

People will need to assume more personal responsibility regarding handling the virus rather than having it imposed on them by the governments. If it means you cannot see your high risk grandmother for a year, so be it. It's unfortunate, but in this age of social media and technology we can still keep close contact with family members without seeing them in person.

Flattening the curve was not initially sold as a method to prevent people from getting the virus. It was to prevent too many people from getting the virus all at once. Most of us will still get the virus one way or another. Herd immunity is still the most likely outcome, rather than an unproven virus.

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