You're right that social distancing until everyone gets infected is a bloody long time (I think you've underestimated it - other estimates are several years, th

You're right that social distancing until everyone gets infected is a bloody long time (I think you've underestimated it - other estimates are several years, though we'd probably have a vaccine by then). The consensus on the best solution is to crush the virus with extreme social distancing, so that it doesn't infect most of the population, and so that we don't have to keep the economy shut for ages. This would only take on order weeks. Then we can open the economy up mostly, and keep hygeine standards high and do extensive testing and contact tracing to keep case numbers very low (low enough that we can still do effective tracing) until a vaccine arrives. Here's a summary: https://www.victoryovercovid19.org/ https://www.victoryovercovid19.org/