LogFAQs > #937948664

He's not actually wrong, though.

We can't stay self-quarantined forever, because our economy is slowly crumbling, and if any of us ever want to come out of this on the other side in a country mostly the same as the one we left behind, we eventually need to balance the necessity of getting back to work with the reality that the virus is still out there, and cases will absolutely spike again the moment people start leaving home.

But at the same time, it's absolutely in our best interests to mostly keep borders as closed as possible for a while, to prevent new infection vectors from coming in and making things worse than they already are. Which has always been the unspoken problem of this whole mess - even if we were somehow capable of shutting everything down and locking everyone away for a month and completely stopping all new infection (which we're not), all you need is one person to show up from a country that hasn't had such a rigorous clamp-down and everything starts over from pretty much square one.

Realistically, this whole thing is just spinning plates until we can come up with a vaccine that can get 70%+ of the population (especially the high-risk individuals) immune. But we can't afford to wait another 6-8 months in quarantine (and if this mutates as fast as the normal flu does, meaning we get secondary strains before then, it could extend this whole thing even longer). We basically need to get the economy back in motion before we don't have an economy.
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