Editor,
The shutdown has served its purpose and is no longer needed because the curve has flattened in the United States and California. People under 50 can safely go back to work with little more risk of dying from the coronavirus than from the flu. People under 50 accounted for only .3% of all COVID deaths in the United States and most of those had other life-threatening illnesses.
If our economy crashes it will cause far more deaths than the coronavirus. There’ll be nothing left on the shelves of stores. The lives and livelihoods of millions of workers and the survival of most businesses depend on going back to work now. This will also allow our least at-risk population to help build up our herd immunity. This may be the only way to defeat the virus if a vaccine isn’t found, as was the case for SARS, HIV and many other viruses.
Ed Kahl
Woodside
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(3) comments
Well written, Mr. Kahl. Unfortunately, the media induced coronavirus panic has triggered the power-hungry impulses of a number of elected and unelected people who fancy themselves kings. The coronavirus hysteria also appears to be robbing many people of their common sense, which already wasn't as common as in the past. We can only hope government is considerably reduced and wasteful tax spending is curbed.
Editor Mr. Kahl, you have a strange way of thinking. When you state that the "least at risk population to help build up our herd immunity". First, the term herd immunity is a poor term from immunology. Are humans like a herd of cattle? I think a better description would be that the majority of the population is immune to the coronavirus; i.e. at least 75%. For some infections it needs to be 95% e.g. measles.
Second, there is no immunity to the HIV virus and no effective vaccine even though scientists have been working on one for 35 years. Could you also state the many other viruses. I'm a microbiologist/virologist and need to know.
Today I read that the best approach "is to choose the path that offers the most sustainable way to balance lives and livelihoods and then create and stick to the conditions that make it workable. Yours is not a workable plan.
The time is always right to do the right thing and for the right reason!
Michael, Thank you for adding some common sense and clear thinking to the discussion.
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