We have to focus on protecting those that are most vulnerable, and allow those that are least vulnerable to return to work. Is there risk still? Of course there is. Just as there are risks associated with everything else that kills us, and I'm sorry, but that's a fair analogy.
Shutting down our economy for an extended period of time will do more harm to society than COVID-19, I believe that too.
We'll develop treatments and we'll move forward.
Saying "this is a big deal" is a straw-man, I never said it wasn't, what I correctly predicted was that all the worse numbers being thrown out there won't be remotely accurate.
How can I make such a prediction? Because we've been down this path multiple times in the last 35 years, and the dire predictions have never come to fruition. From AIDES, to global warming, to MERS to SERS to the Swine Flu. Each and every time the doom and gloom alarmists have been wrong, without one exception.