Poster seems to be thinking about the "UK approach" which is declared to be managing the situation until population immunity catches up and helps snuff it out.

Poster seems to be thinking about the "UK approach" which is declared to be managing the situation until population immunity catches up and helps snuff it out. But, since we're starting from zero natural immunity and a virulent disease with long hospitalizations, if you actually do the math here it never works - there's no situation where you can keep the number of infected low enough to not use up too many hospital beds and also high enough to get population immunity in any reasonable period of time. Those values simply don't overlap (which apparently someone has told the UK now, I guess). The only viable approach is massive lockdowns to reduce the number of infected to a reasonable number followed by super-aggressive public health interventions for each and every infected person to control future spread.