@roamer_1 ya know I love ya to death...but the biggest problem is personelle available to treat folks. I have friends in the medical profession that were fine when this whole thing started. That is not the case right now. I believe them far more than I do the news.
No offense taken
@berdie Personnel are an easy fix. There are literally tons upon tons of medical personnel that ave been laid off because hospitals locked down and stopped elective anything... Our system up here laid off 600 people.
If it were mine to do, I would pass legislation, or an EO declaring first-responder and medical personnel licensing effectively valid nation-wide during emergencies, and draw those personnel from those outlying and unaffected areas where they are laid off and unable to work. This creates a vast resource pool, perhaps even whole teams, cohesive to each other and used to working together.
As workers fall to the virus, which is somewhat inevitable, bring in more... This allows affected workers time to recover and in the process, become immune... and those brought in will also eventually meet the same fate... Being immunized by the time they go home... This is called hardening your forces.
I know you are a proponent of herd immunity. But I'm not convinced in my mind that will work. I have raised cattle and horses...and chickens. If a devasting disease hit...they died. One and all. There isn't enough known about this to make a definitive decision about what might happen. Past performance does not guarantee future results. As far as I know, there is no proven vaccine...like there is for many animal epidemics.
Off the cuff, yes, herds do die off. But this is nowhere near a 'black plague', or any other real pandemic. We DO know that this disease is effectively fatal in around 1% of cases, and that number is going way down from there.
And generically, we do know about this disease. Corona has been known for a long long time... In fact, if you work with cattle or dogs you probably have a fair immunity built in already, because both carry corona. I am sure to have battled corona in myriad forms many times in my life.
And inevitably, it isn't that I am a proponent of herd immunity. It is that herd immunity is the natural state. As you said, there are no controls for this virus, and I will predict there never will be any, as with all fast morphing viruses, it will burn out long before a vaccine can be made.
So with all the whining and crying and throwing dirt in the air, reality asserts that herd immunity is all we got. So logic dictates that reaching that immunity as quickly as possible is what will protect the most folks and get this thing over with.
In fact, attempts to soften the impact by quarantining the nation does nothing. Nothing other than prolonging its presence, as even a fool can see. The longer folks are stuck in their homes, the more vectors they are exposed to, because the only quarantine that works is a perfect one... And no one is getting their foods and packaging irradiated... No one is wearing sufficient gear to protect them.
The obvious way forward, and the logical one, is to quarantine the sick as you find them, quarantine the susceptible that may court death (elderly, folks with disorders), and let it rip. Two weeks to a month later, it has gone, and folks can emerge, because the ACTIVE spreaders are all immune, and the more inactive folks will have very little chance of infection... Which is nothing more than the time honored way of dealing with these things, and the way that works most often. So DO what works. What's known to work FIRST, and worry about every other wild-ass idea later, especially since most of em will wind up not working anyway.
I appreciate that you are in a remote area...much like I am. But I really can't say that will work for people in congested areas.
There is nothing for it, as conditions already prove. Every place it has lit in congested areas it has lit up and gone through em like sh*t through a goose, and nothing they have done has contained it. It reaches herd immunity with or without their efforts, and largely their efforts have worsened things, not made them better.
I promised myself not to post on this subject again. I'm really not a nag. But here I am. 
Stay safe, amigo
S"Alight darlin. you couldn't piss me off if you tried. You're one of my favorite people. You stay safe too.
