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RE: What are your thoughts on all of the Covid social distancing guidelines?

Although I totally understand the reasoning behind social distancing (to protect vulnerable segments of the population and to allow ICU capacity to be ramped up) it's also going to extend the length of time we're dealing with the virus. Some experts say this isn't going to go away until we develop "herd immunity", which means 70% or more of us develop antibodies and estimate it could take two years if we continue on our current path. By that time our economy will be damaged, possibly, beyond repair.

There really is no path forward without more tragedy. So many of the serious cases and deaths are concentrated in nursing homes right now I think we should concentrate on protecting those vulnerable segments of the population and begin to relax the social distancing to allow people to get back to work and society to get to that "herd immunity" level more quickly.

The response has been handled very haphazardly. Hopefully someone is taking notes and will apply the lessons learned to the next pandemic. We should view these viruses as the enemy that they are and have teams of experts begin preparing for the next one immediately. The next time the virus might even be more deadly and we may not get so lucky.