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Originally Posted by O.A.F.K.1.1
Your thesis on a solution also needs to look at the hospitalisation rate.
I think about 2% of overall infections lead to hospitalization. But again, this is heavily weighted toward older people and people with pre-existing conditions. If vulnerable people are protected, and only the young and healthy were infected, the burden on hospitals would likely to be manageable.
I wouldn’t actually advocate infecting everyone young and healthy at once. It would be better to do it over the course of several months, and the number of people being infected could be adjusted over time based on hospital capacity. But in the meantime, we could gradually open up society as those who were already recovered could fully return.
And I am
certainly not advocating for allowing herd immunity to “plow through populations”. The choice of people infected should be deliberate, and vulnerable people should be under very strict quarantine, with absolutely no contact with anyone who didn’t already have an immunity certification (except maybe a spouse or child).