JafarQureshi
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What shutdowns on the short term would do is prevent the rate of spread, taking away the burden from health care system. You might have had heard the term about "flattening the curve". Otherwise it's too many severely sick people and too less hospitals and it will nothing but catastrophic.
That is a big assumption. For example you shutdown the restaurants but people decide to have a potluck. Then what? In both cases the spread may be the same. Now we have not only failed to stop the spread but destroyed the economy too. The key operative words are hygiene and immunity. Shutting down the countries and economies is not a solution. US has 20% elderly population not counting younger people with compromised immunity. There is no way any country's healthcare system could support these type of numbers. People will continue to die until there is a cure/vaccine. I will not hold my breath on that knowing that we still do not have a cure for HIV even after 40 years of R&D.
Selfishness knows no limits. Putting the elderly and weak at risk to satisfy their own egos which revolve around religous chest thumping. Learn to be good humans first, a good human looks out for the weak in society, he doesnt intentionally participate in large gatherings during a period when a dangerous virus is on the loose.
No amount of empathy will protect them. You need to reconcile with the facts and move on.