And while we're at it, let's bring the Great And Wonderful Dr Fauci to the forefront with his latest proclamation:
"Dr. Anthony Fauci, the leading infectious disease expert on President Donald Trump's coronavirus task force, said he was "really confident" that people who recover from the novel coronavirus gain immunity against reinfection." (per Newsweek, The Hill and Business Insider, to be fair to both L and R).
Wait, so masks, staying home, self-quarantine, forcing businesses to close, crashing the economy, putting 33+ million people out of work, government, business and personal bankruptcies, stress, depression and the like were the EXACT wrong things to do? You mean....we should have just continued on in our daily ways, like we did in December and January and February when CV19 WAS an issue.... and treated it like the flu, like our local doctors did.... and stayed home when we were sick with what we thought was the flu....
So......"herd immunity" WAS the correct path all along.....
The newsweek article also includes:
"But he (Dr. Fauci) also cautioned that there was not "100 percent" certainty on the matter as a full study had not been carried out.
"Do we know yet if getting corona and surviving corona means that you're now immune to the disease, or is there a chance of reinfection?" Daily Show host Trevor Noah asked.
Dr. Fauci responded: "We don't know that for 100 percent certain cause we haven't done the study to see... whether they've been protected."
Quite a leap for really confident (not 100%) to no action required. Let's let the medical research professionals do what they do, as the country cracks the doors open and see what happens. I certainly do not believe anyone is involved in intentionally ruining the worlds economy, killing off (mainly) older people or people with one, two or more underlying medical conditions, or even unwinding the social distancing that was implemented to slow the spread without a lot of forethought by really smart people. I can't fathom a guess of the wranglings that go on behind closed doors as the world works out of the pandemic. Also this quote from the US Gov CDC Site:
" The immune response, including duration of immunity, to SARS-CoV-2 infection is not yet understood. Patients with MERS-CoV are unlikely to be re-infected shortly after they recover, but it is not yet known whether similar immune protection will be observed for patients with COVID-19.:"
