Originally Posted by Duffman

The issue with this logic is everyone is assuming the best-case scenario, which is you get it, it's not that bad for 90% of people, you develop anti-bodies that last several years, and move on. The conversations would be vastly different if we knew we were dealing with an incurable virus version of Tuberculosis versus a nasty rhinovirus. Right now, there's evidence to support each extreme. I mean, to add more uncertainty, the virus has started reactivating in Korea:
https://www.usnews.com/news/world-re...positive-again
Is this a one-off occurrence or is this going to be the new-normal for everyone infected? There are tons of possible long-term and N-th order effects, I just chose this specific one as an example. My point, as unpopular as it may be, is that we're actually handling it well. The virus showed up quickly, it got out of control in a few places, we locked down the economy, we've bought ourselves time to study the virus, develop vaccines, antivirals manufacture tests, PPE, etc, and now we're steadily and carefully opening the economy in phases. The shortest way out of this is we discover the virus isn't that bad. The longest way is it is that bad, and resistant to vaccines. Usually reality is somewhere in the middle.