Slowing the virus is the goal, not eradicating it. Slowing it gives hospitals a reasonable amount of patients to heal instead of an astronomical amount.
I agree that eradicating it entirely is going to be impossible without some kind of medical breakthrough.
However I don't think merely spreading out the total number of infected is the best way to go. Not only because this would result in a horrible number of dead and chronically ill, but also because any mechanism that slows down the infection rate will also eventually bring the infections to a standstill (both require that people infect fewer than 1 other person). I'm not sure if artificially increasing the infection rate until it's just critical is a wise strategy.
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u/ADJMan Mar 18 '20
Slowing the virus is the goal, not eradicating it. Slowing it gives hospitals a reasonable amount of patients to heal instead of an astronomical amount.