I have 2 completely unrelated points that I don't think were mentioned yet.
1) If antibodies doesn't mean immunity, then what's the long term plan? If there is no immunity with antibodies a vaccine is worthless.
2) I think we have to stop looking at lockdown as the status quo and instead look at it that every day that the lockdown continues we are making a conscious decision to shut down the country.
1) - was mentioned a bunch of times. Until now every patient treated was a guinea pig in the name of science. Until they understand more about the disease they will never be able to treat it properly, and the mortality rate of those hospitalized remains astonishingly high. We need to be able to bring that down, and that’s something that buying time is and should be benefitting us greatly. It’s very disturbing to have this many people dying in our hospitals for sheer lack of medical knowledge, when weeks or months can make the difference. Also, studying transmission can also help us understand and adopt stricter practices to prevent transmission and abandon the restrictions on actions that are not aiding in transmission anyway.
Furthermore, I’m no epidemiologist and don’t know if what you’re saying is necessarily true, but I think nearly all doctors at this point believe antibodies confer at least some type of immunity. The question is more about how effective they are and how long they last, with a very distant outlier possibility of them not working at all.
2) Agreed, the CBA seems to be moving towards opening much of the economy despite some people inevitably dying. Not from a religious perspective necessarily but from a government perspective. That’s with strict regulations, of course.