Quote Originally Posted by Nick View Post
I don't know who/what you were following. It was to slow the spread.
While I agree with you that the message being delivered by those taking the virus seriously was unilaterally "we need to slow the spread", I will say I have seen that the message received for a lot of people was a concept leading toward extermination. I've seen more posts that I care to admit of "Stay at home, you're just extending this problem", which is one step a way from "Stay at home, so the problem will go away".

From both a virus and economic perspective, we need to find a sweet spot where the virus is spreading at a rate that our hospitals can handle. Slowing the spread too much is only going to expose us to massive spike when we're lulled into a sense of comfort and then another reactive shut down.

Again, we won't have a vaccine until Summer 2021 regardless, so there is no escaping the spread to a significant amount of the population.