The current solution is to sacrifice the jobs, opportunities, mental health, education, and futures of the young, where the young is anyone not retired. Why sho

The current solution is to sacrifice the jobs, opportunities, mental health, education, and futures of the young, where the young is anyone not retired. Why should new graduates lose their offers and join a massively setback economy with 40 mil unemployed, millions of families lose labor income, pupils lose a year of education while forcing their parents into a difficult situation of trying to work while their children are home alone all day, businesses shutter and many shutdown, all compounded with the mental health effects of vast isolation, loss of social events, and outings - because the elderly, relatively rich retiree can't stay home for a few months instead while we make a vaccine and slide checks under their door? In the same breath: "Yeah let's sacrifice out old for the economy!", you simultaneously encourage the current situation: sacrificing the current and future prospects of the entire rest of the population for no other reason than you believe the old can't quarantine without taking everyone else with them? The economy isn't just some GDP numbers and the DOW - that crap helps the hefty 401(k)s of the retirees anyway, it's people's jobs, savings, ability to afford food, rent, and vacations, and so on.