It just isn’t viable. Attempting that approach will result in people dying in the streets because there will be no room for them. That’s not doom and gloom that’s the number in the best of cases. 70% infection rates in UT county alone is 300k. If 3% need hospital care and 1% need an icu/critical care that’s 3-9k. We don’t have the hospital beds for that. UT county has roughly 100 ICU beds. That’s not enough. I’m not being doom and gloom. I’m using very conservative numbers. Cut those by half and you still overwhelm the system and people die in tents.

I’m not a doom and gloom guy but I have faith that we are doing reasonable things at this point in time.

All the above being said I get the toll on the economy. I get the death tolls from economic strife as well. I do study history and I do understand economic suffering as I’ve been there before. It isn’t new to me.

There are no easy choices. But there’s doom and gloom projections coming from all over. On both sides. It isn’t a foregone conclusion that any of these scenarios will play out on either side.

I prefer to keep hope that people will be willing to save people. From disease and economic ruin. It’s all we can do at this point.