uh, yeah, um huh.. NO. Aids still there, cancer still there, Flu still there, and many other terminal illness which we have been looking for ways to "exterminate" for decades. Which they did not closed the economy for any of those BTW, what makes you think that we can "exterminate the threat". COVID is a hyped up flue, no real threat. It is the way of nature dealing with overpopulation which is what we have. Here is the flaw in your morronic argument. Lets say that the COVID virus takes 100 years to "exterminate" , should we keep the economy closed for 100 years?! For what? For a virus people can build anti-bodies within a week or two and get back to their normal life?! You also need to stop watching fear feeding news, they are unhealthy and are the REAL threat. Evidently they do a good job from keeping people from thinking. They need to open the economy back up now, they need to contain those who are high risk (the elderly and those with weak immune system (like cancer/aids patients), but the rest of the populous needs to get out there and build up their immune system, our best natural weapon against such things. Again, next year will not be an election year and I doubt your media will talk much about it.