The COVID-19 pandemic

[Bjays93]

This is categorically false.

It is quite likely a vaccine will be approved this year, and should be rolled out next year. We already have more effective treatments than we did 3 months ago.

But leaving all that aside, I'm curious as to how many lives you feel the economy is worth?

Yes I am aware we have more effective ways of treating it now, but theres still no tried and truth method or medication to help handle covid at this point. I'm sure there will be clinical recommendations by the end of the year, but suggesting we'll have viable vaccines soon if at all is naive. 

IF we were to roll out a vaccine next spring that would be years faster than any prior vaccine rollout, with unknown implications, questions around lasting immunity and a whole range of different strains around the globe. Most people may simply choose not to get it and even if they do it would likely be not adequately tested and it would probably be largely ineffective. 

And to your question. I dont know. I think that's something the whole world is having to come to grips with right now. People are going to die, and what point to we just turn a blind eye, how much do we do to help etc. Ideally I'd like to save as many lives as possible. 

Life is something we shouldn't put a price on imo, but my point was moreso that half assed lockdowns do unnecessary damage to the economy whilst not really changing the long term trajectory of the disease. Either social distance, wear masks and keep everything open and just let what happens happen. Or lockdown until theres no community transmission. As long as community transmission is occurring and untraceable, resurgence will be inevitable when things open back up.