In reply to <a href="https://macdailynews.com/2020/04/23/the-covid-19-data-is-clear-stop-the-panic-and-end-the-total-isolation/#comment-2190653">Peter</a>.
Herd immunity for a disease this infectious requires that 80% of the population catch it and recover (with measles it is about 95%). That equals 264 million Americans. At even a 0.5% mortality, that is 1.3 million deaths.
I don’t think that is either political or economic good policy.
