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Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield
But how does a country stay isolated until there's a vaccine or treatment? That's a long time to be shut off from so much commerce.
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It doesn't need to. It needs to control transmission and avoid community spread. If you monitor health, test those with symptoms or who have been in close contact with someone positive, isolate those who need it and have near-universal universal use of masks, you're past the need for lock down to control it. Between this and SARS, we have lots of examples of how this happens.
But you have to be prepared and act early. Two things we did not do.
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The US, UK, Sweden, and China will effectively be able to travel and engage in commerce between each other far ahead of those blue countries. (If we're not at war with China.)
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Having more sick people puts us behind, not ahead. Again, everyone being sick at once is not herd immunity, it's uncontrolled spread. Maybe it will eventually lead to herd immunity, as long as you ignore the inevitable contact with populations that don't have it.
