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Message:: [QUOTE="CamaroDMD, post: 4511914, member: 5233"]Everything you said here is 100% correct...but its not complete.  The issue with COVID-19 right now is that its a new virus that we have no population immunity for.  That's not the case for the seasonal flu.  Yes, every so often a flu recombines and we see novel flu...it last happened in 2009...but that's not an every year. We need some immunity throughout the population to lessen the impact of this virus.  That will slow the spread.  But, its a chicken and egg problem.  The measures that are being put in place are an attempt (and who knows how successful they really are) to simply reduce the rate of the spread in the hopes of not overwhelming the healthcare system while at the same time build some of that herd immunity.  I believe that had we not globally put the measures into place...we would see this herd immunity and equilibrium come a lot faster, but the death toll would be far higher.  What's the value of those lives...I guess that's the unanswerable question. I'm assuming that this summer is shot...and I'm hoping that fall is totally trashed but I assume it will be.  But, I would think by January we should have enough population immunity where some kind of equilibrium would be reached.[/QUOTE]