Over a year ago we knew that the wuhan virus is lethal almost exclusively to the elderly and the obese by the outcomes on the quarantined Diamond Princess cruise ship, 8 deaths among about 700 infected among the 3,700 passengers, most of them old, that profile which would have provided the template for reaching herd immunity quickest and most humanely, by protecting the elderly, the morbidly obese, and those with chronic conditions, and let the rest live their lives. Herd immunity would have probably reached in mid summer of last year rather than last fall, millions of small businesses saved as a result.
