For there to be NO new cases, we’d need to keep everyone in lockdown with zero movement outside for 2 weeks. All who aren’t sick are now free to go. Those homes that exhibit illness should have the sick person removed and the rest be kept locked down for another 2 weeks to see if there are new cases.
But that’s not what our lockdown was or can be. Essential personnel were moving from covid areas to non and back. Besides all those who were noncompliant.
Until when do we shelter in place? What is the endpoint of the lockdown? What is changing in the next few weeks, months? A vaccine may be as close as a few months away or as far as years.
The government’s original goal was to ‘flatten the curve’, to keep the healthcare system from being too overwhelmed to care for too many sick people at once. Whether that was truly accomplished is debatable.
So now we’re at a point where many have had it. We know more about it, and realize that healthy, non-obese people under about 40 have a minimal risk of serious effects from covid.
Do we truly need to keep everyone locked down ad infinitum? Those who had it a while ago and healthy young people, are only infinitesimally at risk if they’re exposed to covid. Let them go out and get exposed and get sick or not.
We should keep the vulnerable in lockdown! They should have groceries delivered to them carefully. They shouldn’t go to shul or work.
We don’t need to continue to stress our young families by keeping them isolated and minimally educated.
We don’t need to continue to harm our economy by keeping all means of production shuttered. A tanked economy will have devastating effects of those same people who’s lives you’re trying to save by continuing the lockdown.
I realize, S209, that you must have lost someone important to you. For that I wish you a nechama. But a continued lockdown is not the answer.