Pedaldad posted:baseballhs posted:Another article to argue about.
This is a technique and makes logical sense. It was Britain's original plan that they quickly dumped when epidemiologists there warned it would overwhelm the health system and cost an extra 250,000 lives.
Sweden seems to be the country that is actually doing this still:
https://time.com/5817412/sweden-coronavirus/
I could see some communities in the US doing it, just trying to keep the spread slower. However, I think that it also shows that more deaths will be the likely result.
The expectation is that in a few months when the second wave hits, we will be better set up to handle it (both in hospital capacity and hopefully better treatments).