Listen to the Rain

I agree with that article that herd immunity isn't a solution as such, it's more admitting we don't have any other solutions and giving up. Like it says, we only get herd immunity after the disease waves go through the population, not before.

Hence the doomsaying. The longer restrictions go on, the slower we reach that point. If none of the current vaccine efforts pan out and a vaccine is four years or longer away--or if, chas v'shalom, it's impossible, then as you say, eventually people will get sick of sitting at home, of their favorite restaurants and shops going out of business, and they'll go out and gather whether it's legal or not. And the more this happens, the less people will comply because they'll be sick of it or they'll think that other people got sick but they won't or they have to make money or eat, or any number of reasons.

I see all kinds of people say they're willing to wait at home until a vaccine because they assume it'll be a year or 18 months at most. I don't know what they'll do if it turns out a vaccine is a decade out.