> This is what I think many forget when they speak against lockdown and for "herd immunity" - that this would not only result in a huge ammount of unnecessary deaths, but also pretty much wear out if not outright kill a signifficant part of medical personel.

Actually, no. You're parroting nonsense.

The US cannot do testing and tracing because they waited too late, with 100,000 airline arrivals per week from China before (and during) the travel ban. So lockdown and masks accomplish nothing in the long run - we will all get corona until there's herd immunity, whether that's sooner or later.

And half of hospital staff have been laid off. Many could be retrained in weeks or months to work in a corona ICU - watching a monitoring machine for a drugged, intubated patient isn't harder than anything else in an ICU.

You know how annoying fake humility and humblebragging are? I find the fake empathy on HN just as annoying, and counter-productive.