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Message: [QUOTE="dogged1, post: 3540852, member: 7301"] Maybe somebody with direct medical knowledge of how this works can explain it to me or correct my logic. My thought was that all the social distancing and PPE use was to "flatten the curve". That is slow the spread of the virus down so that medical resources and facilities aren't overwhelmed by an onslaught of cases in a short period of time. But until there is a vaccine all the distancing and PPE in the world won't prevent most of us, especially those in urban or dense suburban areas from [I]eventually[/I] being exposed to the virus. If that is true, then do we maintain this semi isolation- semi shutdown until there is a vaccine? Or do we ease restrictions knowing that as we do previously unexposed people will be exposed and get the disease, but at a rate that the medical facilities can handle? Please note; I am asking, not lecturing. I am looking for a medical science based reasoning not left vs right politics. [/QUOTE]