Bill Gates did an AMA on Reddit and said the optimistic angle is that the antivirals and various therapeutics, etc, will come much faster than a vaccine and bring the rate of infection down. Clamping down now buys some time. Nothing is guaranteed of course, except for letting it “run its course” in which case the system risks collapse and you end up with bigger problems than we even face now.
People treat this like a binary choice between “save the economy” and “save the elderly”, but if you’ve been following this at all it’s clear that there’s no simple answer in either direction.
People treat this like a binary choice between “save the economy” and “save the elderly”, but if you’ve been following this at all it’s clear that there’s no simple answer in either direction.