Quote Originally Posted by Wheeze View Post
The search for a vaccine is a red herring.
The stats now show that the virus kills mainly old or ill people.
The death rates in younger healthy people is similar to influenza.i.e. just under 500 per year.
It really is time to release the healthy under 60's back to a normal life.
Everyone else can take precautions ranging from current distancing/masking/hygiene regimes to full shielding.
As a fit 61 year old I think I can manage to keep current hygiene habits and I've NO interest in going to Niketown!!
If the under 60s are released the effect will of course leak into the older age groups and the younger vulnerable people. Social distancing is already a problem locally and from what I have seen even worse elsewhere - if "release" occurred it would become non existent.
I agree we need to try to head back towards normal for mental/physical/economic health, but we need to think carefully about how we do this.
Look at New York - 1 in 400 dead - and that figure is a month out of date, and it includes quite a few youngsters.