Pretty sure the health care system is not overwhelmed and hasn't been through this whole "pandemic" outside of a few isolated cities.
Basically just the NYC area so far. Texas, Arizona, and Florida hospitals are nearing capacity, though, so it's not out of the realm of possibility to see something similar happen in, say, Houston or Phoenix in the near future. It's not a given, either, of course.
Mass death hasn't happened and won't... if you follow the numbers the number of cases goes up and the death rate continues to plummet.
The families and friends of roughly 131,000 Americans (so far) would likely beg to differ.
Death rate trails case rate. It's too early to determine whether that trend continues. Additionally, death rate is also related to hospital capacity, so it was much higher when NYC was completely inundated and has dropped off since as they have returned to having enough capacity. This trend could easily reverse if one or more other major cities hit crisis levels like NYC did.
The answer to the problem is herd immunity ( and allowing our bodies to do their thing fighting disease) not a vaccine that only covers a specific strain.
Essentially all epidemiologists disagree with you. A vaccine is the short path to herd immunity. Letting the virus run wild through the population will, on the other hand, almost certainly overwhelm healthcare systems nationwide and lead to an explosion in deaths.
That's why a lot of people still get the flu after getting the flu shot. It's because it only covers specific strains.
This isn't the flu. There aren't dozens of strains of this where we have to make our best guess. Further, strains develop through mutation, so the odds of developing more strains increases if you let it run rampant through the population and have more hosts within whom to mutate. If you keep it suppressed as much as possible until there is a vaccine, you minimize its opportunities to develop into new strains.
I'm curious how many of the athletes are actually concerned about covid-19. I'm guessing the reason we only hear about the ones who are concerned is because everyone who is not worried is being politically correct and afraid of being ostrasized for voicing their opinion.
I truly don't understand how this has become an issue of "political correctness" at all. 131,000 Americans have died in a few months. 521,000 people worldwide have died in a few months. Other countries have shown that suppression works. How is this at all controversial?