Rigby5
Diamond Member
One problem with that idea. The "healthy" were dying too. And you would have to lock up either the elderly and those with co-morbidities from the healthy, or lock up the healthy from the elderly and those with co-morbidities.
Because you can't isolate the healthy and the services they provide from the elderly and those with co-morbidities that would use those services, there's no functional way of doing that, it's as ridiculous a suggestion as controlling COVID by wishing on a star.
Wrong.
The elderly over 70 were 400 times more likely to die than those under 40.
So all you had to do is only deliberately infect volunteers under 40, and they you would have been able to divide Fauci's estimate of 2.4 million dead to achieve herd immunity, down to only 6,000.
You do not have to isolate the healthy from the elderly except for the 12 days when the healthy have deliberately become infected by volunteering.
This is trivial and easy, so could have been finished in the very first month of the epidemic.