“While the high death toll is not a good looking statistic, the reality is that any nation with a high death toll is probably way ahead in the race to get herd immunity.”
Both ignorant and untrue. There is no evidence so far that there is any long lasting immunity from having contracted the virus. Furthermore, getting herd immunity by letting the virus kill off the more vulnerable is flat out stupid. Why even bother with health care at all, then? Let all the diseases run amok and the handful of us left can marvel at our superior genetics or something. While a bunch of Chinese guys round us up for their slave factories. Brilliant!
Herd immunity is best achieved by vaccination, without allowing the virus to crash our health care system in the meantime.
But vaccination is not going to happen anytime soon. We may not be able to get a vaccine at all. So where does that leave us?
FDA has never approved a Corona vax....ponder that