The New Zealand strategy is a strict lockdown till no new cases, then test and trace until vaccine or treatment.

The let-it-rip strategy means letting people get a novel virus with no known cure whose long term effects we don’t fully understand.
https://theconversation.com/delight-relief-and-caution-six-experts-on-new-zealands-move-to-ease-its-coronavirus-lockdown-136715
New Zealand shows that a Western democracy may be able to get to zero new cases.

The strategy of going for “herd immunity” seems risky relative to this alternative.

There’s still so much we don’t know about this disease. Many “asymptomatic” cases are actually presymptomatic.
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