Your goal is to “surf” the border of the number of cases your medical system can handle at any given time (maybe this would mean an R0 of 1?) Any more cases, and you tighten quarantine; any fewer cases, and you relax it. If you’re really organized, you can say things like “This is the month for people with last names A—F to go out and get the coronavirus”. That way you never get extra mortality from the medical system being overloaded, but you do eventually get herd immunity and the ability to return to normalcy.
I’m pretty sure that’s exactly what the UK is trying to do? I’m actually pretty confident that the UK government isn’t planning to have ” hospitals overload and many people die from lack of hospital care. ”. Even if they were sure that was the best approach (and they just didn’t think of your idea?) it would be completely unfeasible politically
I’m pretty sure that’s exactly what the UK is trying to do? I’m actually pretty confident that the UK government isn’t planning to have ” hospitals overload and many people die from lack of hospital care. ”. Even if they were sure that was the best approach (and they just didn’t think of your idea?) it would be completely unfeasible politically