> This is not how it works. You cannot "shift" cases into summer. Herd immunity is not binary, it’s a spectrum. Every person walking around with antibodies sup

> This is not how it works. You cannot "shift" cases into summer. Herd immunity is not binary, it’s a spectrum. Every person walking around with antibodies suppresses the R factor that much more. IMO this is a big reason new cases have been so low in NYC - so many people walking around with immunity it’s now highly suppressed. > I also keep hearing about "hundreds of thousands of death due to side effects of quarantine" and have not seen a single reputable study regarding that. Well, for example, the NY Times reported about 1/3 of excess deaths in NY were due to quarantine; https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/06/01/us/coronavirus-deaths-new-york-new-jersey.html https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/06/01/us/coronaviru... And that’s just the immediate effects of quarantine. The long-term effects are actually worse.