I'm not suggesting a permanent lockdown. We need an 8 week lockdown to hit the cases hard. And stop the spread. You stop the spread, let it bake itself off. Boom, your cases have dropped *dramatically* you re-open mandating face masks and social distancing until there's a vaccine.
The desire to break the rules is not in our DNA. That's ridiculous.
Let's put this into perspective:
USA has a population of ~380 mil.
~36 people per square kilometer.
Roughly 25,000 cases per million.
Total active cases: 2.7million
Germany:
240 people per square kilometer.
Population 80million.
4.5k cases per million.
total Active Cases: ~75k.
New Zealand.
15 people per square kilometer.
Population 5mil
cases per million 325
Total Active Cases: 33
Of the first world countries, USA has the highest number of cases per capita.
Of -ALL- reporting countries, USA has the highest number of cases by 2 million. France is in second place with 700,000.
India has 382 people per square kilometer, with a population of one BILLION more than the US. They have a total of 740,000 active cases with ~5k cases per capita.
Are you seeing the pattern? This isn't a China problem. This isn't a virus problem. This is an America problem. Too many people being political about a virus and panicking about their freedoms. Guess what? We are doing the absolute worst to other countries of comparable populations. Brazil, a third world country, is doing better than us.
So politely, I ask you:
GET YOUR HEAD OUT OF YOUR ASS!