until it's gone. It will never go away if we do that. I could definitely be persuaded otherwise but IMO a much more effective strategy than social distancing is let the young people go nuts and get it, quarantine the older folks, and let the disease go through a round of the young people. Then they all have immunity and won't be passing it to anyone. Plus, if some older folks get it after that it's a lot harder to spread since a huge part of the population has already been immunized.
Also this strategy wouldn't have led to 9.7M jobless claims in the past two weeks, nor would it have led to nearly as many closures of small businesses and people's life work.
It might be hard to control to get something like that to happen but theoretically it seems a lot better than what we're doing.
It's going to be interesting to see this year studied in philosophy and ethics classes for years to come.