I can't see the logic in this- if fewer lives are lost and fewer cases are happening per capita, then the approach must be succeeding. If you're still clinging to the 'herd immunity' approach you might want to ask your PM Johnson how he feels about that right now. There's every chance that acquired immunity could be short-lived and we end up with another pandemic of the exact same thing next year. Only a cure, vaccine, or both can bring us an assured end to this particular virus.
If we're going to judge this later on then anything now is speculative. The virus could recur, mutate, or just disappear from the big picture. or maybe even disappear altogether. Thing is that we still don't know enough about this kind of disease to make any solid predictions about it. Only with it's ending will answers emerge. And at that time, I do hope the world's Governments will plan better for the next virus epidemic/pandemic because it is coming.
The Governor of my State finally grew some "cojones" as the Latino's say and issued something of a "Stay at home" order. But you can still go to work (if your business is open- many have been ordered closed) and you can still get groceries, go outside to exercise, go to church, or to get needed medical supplies/treatments for humans or pets. A misdemeanor and a $100 fine if you fail to comply (which will come later as even the Courts are almost completely shut down). So what will really happen? Anyone outside will say they're going to or from work, or they're grocery shopping. And some other "WTF?" things here: All State-controlled lakes are closed, but the landings belong to the Federal government at many of them, and those haven't been shut down so you can still launch your boat but you can't go fishing or swimming from it. And of the list of businesses being ordered to close, nothing has been said of construction (but needed home repairs have been specifically allowed, and nothing has been said of Uber/Lift cars, nor has anything been said of lawncare or many other businesses. Probably 30+ types of businesses specifically named as needing to close, but there's plenty more types which could bring close personal contacts. Would have probably been better to list the allowed businesses instead. Department stores must close, but Walmart can remain open though they can only sell necessities like food, medicine and personal care stuff. Sporting goods stores must close, but gun shops can stay open. Of any open businesses, only 5 people allowed per 1000SqFt or 20% of allowed capacity whichever is smallest, and stores are responsible to make sure everyone inside maintains at least 6ft distance between each other.
Most of the grocery stores here have set aside an hour per day once or twice a week for elderly customers only, usually the first hour they're open. At 60 years old I'm eligible for that but I'm not liking being called 'elderly' just yet. Still I'm going in the morning for some food with hopes of snagging a little more TP and paper towels to keep the stock here from running out. We're all country and mountain folk here so we know how to do without if we have to, but it's nice to have if you can get it. And hoping the hardware store is open to get a few things to finish up some of the projects going on. While it's almost certain to be safe eating to-go (takeaway) food I've been avoiding that for 3 weeks just to be certain I know my food is safe, but it's SO tempting to grab something while I'm out. Also some chance of heavy/severe thunderstorms here tomorrow so I might be stuck inside for the weather, but I'm glad to be so far from 'the world' that I am free to go outside on the property freely without worry of catching anything or getting a citation for being out. It's a beautiful quiet night with a hazy full moon letting you see among the trees almost as if it were daytime- kind of hard taking all that in knowing the world is hurting not so far away.
Phil
