Further, the virus was initially predicted to be more than it may now showing itself to be (though still serious).
The moment that we are more secure in our health system’s abilities to handle the wave, these restrictions should shift to isolating the at risk population while the rest of the healthy population gets back to work and contributes to developing herd immunity.
There is great loss on both sides of the equation, and this is going to be a difficult decision because of the polarization of our population. It IS a political event to the Left. There ARE left wing radicals that want the country they hate to fail so that real socialism can take root. There are also radicals - several on this board, who want the virus to succeed in order to bring down Teump - they are ill and will never agree to an end point.
There are also hard core Righties who don’t want to acknowledge the threat of this virus or the need to protect our vulnerable.
It is a no win situation. However, there does have to be an endpoint as we cannot let a viral infection on the order of H1N1 destroy our country. This is not the Zombie Apocalypse.
When our health officials feel that we have a grip on meds and vents and beds, then I would relieve the restrictions in low risk areas and shift them around as the virus spreads and runs it’s course. I would isolate the at risk at that point as well.