Hi Elizabeth. I hope you and your family stay safe.

Thank you for your response. I appreciate your visits. I always look forward to your insightful comments. Thank you.

I have no disagreement with your numbers since they mirror what Dr Fauci and Dr Birx used to convince President Trump to recommend the shutdown. My question is if there is a better way to have addressed the pandemic.

My question was predicated on what is being found. Young people face hospitalization in large numbers, but few go into the ICU and a small number die. The highest numbers going into the hospital are in my age group. We also are more likely to go into ICU and more of us die than any age group except +85 year old. The numbers are from https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/03/coronavirus-young-people-hospitalized-covid-19-chart/.

I saw, today, a study in LA County where they found 4.1% of those tested had antibodies. This was in early April and equated to over 200k persons. If across the country, some 14 million might already have antibodies. I expect there would be more in areas with previously high infection numbers.

I am not belittling the danger of the virus or those who have died from it. My wife and I worry one of our family would get it. God has been good to us that we are all well. But, the pain many have suffered from job loss, businesses closing that will never reopen, the increase noted in drug use and abuse in some homes. Suicides are statistically shown to increase as the number unemployed increases. The rate has gone up 10% or more in just four weeks.

All of this caused me to wonder if we could have concentrated on the restricting the elderly and those with health issues the virus attacks without locking everyone down for so long.

I must say, I feel for the families of those who died from this virus. I feel for the families of those who survived for they lived in fear of a love one dying. And for those, like me and my wife, who feared hearing one our loved ones contacted it.

Again, be safe and thank you for your comment. It did give me cause for reflection.

Why? Because NO ONE is vaccinated against COVID-19.

Here’s why lock down is necessary:

There are 320,000,000 Americans. *All* susceptible as there is no vaccine and no immunity as its a new virus.

The death rate of this virus is somewhere between 1-3%.

If 95% of the population gets the virus, that’s 304,000,000 that get sick. If 1-3% of them die, that is somewhere between 3,000,000 and 9,000,000 people.

Maybe the death rate is slightly lower and only 2,000,000 die. Maybe it’s higher and 12,000,000 die.

Think about those numbers. To put them into perspective, 405,000 Americans died in WWII.