Population-level herd immunity against Covid-19 will not be achieved in 2020

Re:Population-level herd immunity against Covid-19 will not ... by TheOtherHobbes on Friday May 08, 2020 @08:51AM (#23114264)

If no lockdown happened, critical workers would have become sick and/or died, critical systems would have started failing - temporarily, but it's still not a good look when there's panic buying and no food in the stores - and a significant number of people would have stayed at home anyway.

Plus bodies. So many bodies. They would have skewed older, but it's completely wrong to say this is a disease of the over-70s.

There are a lot of people of working age who barely survived infection and now have semi-permanent or possibly permanent - no one knows yet - lung damage.

The idea that we could have somehow managed this without any economic damage is pure fantasy. It has no absolutely foundation in reality.

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Re:Population-level herd immunity against Covid-19 will not ... by DuskStar on Friday May 08, 2020 @10:46AM (#23115339)

It may be wrong to say this is a disease of the over-70s, but it's not wrong to say that it's a killer of over-70s and the sick.

Most critical workers are not over 70, and most do not have long-term health issues.

So yes, there was always going to be economic damage. But that doesn't meant there would have been nearly this much.

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