I've helped provide in-home meals for around 100 seniors three times a week since May. There is an absolute abundance of caution that I take when handling these meals because I precisely understand what asymptomatic means. None of our seniors have been ill or certainly not seriously ill to the very best of my knowledge.
Know your audience. Some people are very much at risk of COVID-19. Most people very much are not. NINETY-FOUR PERCENT of the 200,000 dead we're hung up on had an average of 2.6 comorbidities when they died, per the CDC. Only SIX PERCENT died of COVID-19 alone, per the CDC. When a chronically ill loved one dies after a long battle with cancer, but happened to have influenza at the time, do we go inform others that they died of influenza? Does the hospital even bother testing for influenza? Those already sick are the ones who are at risk and dying. They should take the precautions they need to take, and as a society we should provide them with contactless meals and essentials as we go about our daily lives. Quarantining the healthy is not the answer. The blanket approach we're taking (or at least the one some governing bodies are trying to get us to take) is berserk and causing as much or more physical, psychological, and emotional damage as it is preventing. This virus is here to stay, and will eventually come into contact with everyone, vaccine or not. Ever met someone who has never had a cold? Ever met someone who has never had the flu? I didn't think so. Have we developed herd immunity against the flu? Has a vaccine eradicated the flu? Of course not, and yet, those of us who are healthy don't hide from that virus and we're not going to hide from this one much longer, either.
Open the stadiums up. Open the bars up. Open the schools up. Fork these agendas.