Let me clarify some things. I meant to say there are NO COVID class vaccines. The common cold is caused by the Covid virus - no vaccines for it...no vaccines for any of the Covid viruses because their nature makes it difficult to create an effective one. If we manage to produce one it is a long shot and at this point should not even be really considered as a short or medium term solution.

The current stats surely indicate that the sick and old are the ones impacted. see here: https://tinyurl.com/ybtbqxsn Basically the ones in nursing homes or the ones that are so unhealthy that they are not producing much. This is also a fact that can not be contested. Sure you see on the news, adnauseam, the middle aged man that got sick and died and left a family - but they are the minority. Now just because I say that does not mean that the old and sick have NO economic benefit for somebody; sure nursing homes are a business and people make money from it - what I mean to clarify is that in terms of wealth generation, they produce very little in terms of net because usually people of this class are not working because they are old and sick.

I do certainly care about people - I am just saying our hospitals are not overwhelmed right now at all. The ones that will get sick we have capacity for, and the ones that are going to die from this will die. So we should move forward and suffer their loss now instead of cripple the economy and suffer their loss over time. Because what does a crippled economy leave us? More vulnerable in every way to every other threat - natural and man made.

Also, by your reasoning, we should quarantine everybody with AIDS, Tuberculosis and a host of other diseases...so why don't we? Why are the Covid-19 deaths the only ones that matter here?