Imagine you are facing a crisis and there are two prescriptions.
Prescription 1:
Let life go on, protect the most vulnerable, practice some prudent distancing and heightened attention to hygiene, limit large “superspreader” environments for some time. Let our immune system and ability to medically treat this, both evolve.
Prescription 2:
For the love of all that is decent, all that is sane, all that is humane can anyone tell us how this can possibly even be a choice? Might we agree to take the only sane medicine here? High time, in fact long overdue, necessary and needed, now.This is the prevailing orthodoxy. It is basically shut down the virus by shutting down life as we know it.
