{"id":806246,"date":"2020-04-09T14:45:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-09T20:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/?p=381582"},"modified":"2020-04-09T14:45:00","modified_gmt":"2020-04-09T20:45:00","slug":"letter-to-the-editor-stay-at-home-orders-should-be-lifted-to-create-herd-immunity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/local-news\/letter-to-the-editor-stay-at-home-orders-should-be-lifted-to-create-herd-immunity\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter to the editor: Stay-at-home orders should be lifted to create herd immunity"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I implore the town councils, county commissioners and Colorado governor to rescind the countywide and statewide lockdowns and allow, even encourage, low-risk COVID-19 people to return to work, open businesses and give our local and regional economies a fighting chance to resuscitate and not languish indefinitely in the current emotional and financial downward spiral. Surely, there must be a way to protect the high-risk group while not sacrificing our constitutional freedoms in the process. We must certainly protect the 3%, but a quarantine on the 97% is misguided over-reach.<\/p>\n

According to experts, the low-risk demographics, which include most of Colorado\u2019s population, would recover quickly or not show any symptoms after contracting the virus. The relatively small high-risk group (those older than 70 with underlying conditions like heart or lung ailments) should be excluded from the general population with all due precautions.<\/p>\n

But the youthful majority should be allowed to return to work so that at some point 40% to 70% of that population will become naturally immune.<\/p>\n

This herd immunity theory says that people who become naturally immune to the virus by contracting and surviving it will block the virus from infecting others in the high-risk group, thereby saving many more lives in the long run until our medical experts create a vaccine for the entire population.<\/p>\n

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