COVID-19 Outbreak (Update: More than 2.9M cases and 132,313 deaths in US)
So here in a week or two we'll be getting to the "dance" part of things.
Openings and closings, getting as much back to normal as we can while hoping we aren't screwing ourselves for the fall. A dance that'll likely last until A: We see a nationwide spike that necessitates another general quarantine or B: Effective treatment/vaccines are developed and deployed.
Those antibody tests pointed out as showing a lower lethality for C19 have a flip side, too. This virus is silently everywhere. If we go back all la-dee-dah to business as usual, it won't start up again from a couple-three individual points, like lighting a few matches under some kindling. It'll come back from all over all at once, like igniting a puddle of gasoline.
This has got to be just maddening for researchers and policymakers. If those asymptomatic numbers hold up, it means C19 is dangerously random. How do you plan for a thing that in location A can infect 40% of the population with only a few deaths and manageable hospitalizations while location B has a 20% infection rate and the entire healthcare system teeters on the brink of collapse?
You can't just roll the dice with other people's lives. Not unless you're an insane death-cultist like the mayor of Las Vegas.