I think some people believe we should all stay in lockdown until this virus goes away or we have a vaccine, I think either option is unrealistic,
to my knowledge the only virus we’ve eradicated in the global population is Small Pox and that took many decades, and we don’t even have a vaccine yet.
That’s if there is ever one at all, apparently there isn’t a Vaccine for SARS, as far as I’m aware there isn’t a vaccine for HIV and its only recently there has been a vaccine for Ebola.
Even if we get a vaccine quickly most of us won’t get it for years, the first one to get it will be politicians, celebrities and hopefully they’ll be some for healthcare workers and vulnerable people, but us ordinary people I wouldn’t hold your breath.
So I’m not sure how long these people think we’ll be in a lockdown situation to reach their goal, but I think if you’re waiting for eradication or a mass vaccination it could be years.
Looking at the data, it seems for most people this isn’t a serious disease, but for some its fatal, this is mostly for the elderly and those with existing conditions.
assets.publishing.service.gov.u … _6_May.pdf
Taking the data from this for England up to the 6th May,
Age % Cases % Death
60+ 51.97% 91.3%
50-59 14.97% 5.62%
under 50 31.58% 2.45%
Figures NHS England show that 94.9% of those who died has pre-existing conditions and 95.59% of the those 60+ who died had pre-existing health conditions.
england.nhs.uk/statistics/s … ly-deaths/
and these figures are only for those that have been tested positive, its well known from antibody studies that many more people have had this, than have been tested, these are mostly those admitted to hospital or Healthcare workers, so taking that into account the death rate will be even lower, especially for young healthy people.
Maybe we should be protecting the elderly and those with pre-existing health conditions, which seems to have gone wrong in the care homes in many countries including the UK, but be less worried about healthy people going to work or sitting in a park or going to the beach. Although Social Distancing will still be required to stop the virus running riot and not having enough healthy people to look after the vulnerable.