There are people that are so annoying, they act like the goal of social distancing and shutting down businesses is to make the virus go away completely. We self-isolate long enough in their view, the pandemic stops. That has never been the goal of WHO or CDC, it's been stated flat out that we don't have immunity, COVID-19 is going to bulldoze through us and the goal of social distancing and isolation is simply to slow it down. It's part of life now, we're likely all going to get sick, we just have to get sick slower than what is now a natural rate of infection for humans in modern countries.
Do people really think that if they stay 6 feet apart and watch Netflix nightly that COVID-19 will die out in less than a month? Are they really unaware that it's to flatten the curve, not annihilation? Are they really closing their eyes to the fact that it's already mutating - and that no one yet knows if catching one mutation will give immunity to all?
I'm doing my share to flatten the curve because it is of utmost importance that there be less serious infections than there are ventilators. But I labor under no illusions that my isolation will protect me in the long run. The only way the world is going to get back to normal, mall walking, movie theaters and that trampoline park I want to try, is for enough people to be immune that there's no one left to catch it.
And even if people all over the world are locked away for a month, no deliveries of any kind, no medical or utility service, nothing, it wouldn't do much. This is a zoonotic virus, there's at least one other creature that can host it. Even a dog was found to have it, they tested it when they tested its sick owner.
