Originally Posted by Excargodog

The question is, what is YOUR Plan B? Because you obviously haven’t even started to TRY to refute the premise in the opening statement, that there is no certainty an effective immunization will EVER be developed, and even if one should be developed, that is unlikely to happen quickly and mass immunization programs - even before the rise of the antivax movement, still took decades to accomplish in even a single country and closer to a century worldwide.

That is the point of this whole thread. How long are YOU going to advocate a lockdown, waiting hopefully for an immunization that may be decades off if it ever comes at all. You may believe herd immunity to be a ‘pipe dream’ but it’s always worked before, or else none of us would be here because this is scarcely the first pandemic in history. But an immunization being developed in time to STOP a pandemic? That would be a first. I’m not saying that’s impossible but it seems really improbable based upon the historical record. So how long do you hold true to your theory of lockdown until we get a vaccine, if months and years pass and we DON’T get that vaccine? At what point do you abandon your ‘pipe dream’ that there will be a vaccine ready soon or that even if there was it could be distributed quickly and universally? Because the ‘pipe dream’ of herd immunity is an historical fact. The ‘pipe dream’ of a vaccine terminating a worldwide pandemic has yet to be seen.