Well I am not interested in media spin and the various biases.
There are many people who have heart problems, may be over weight, diabetes who still have jobs and are contributing members of society so if they are the more vulnerable, does the government allow them to stay home but who fills their jobs as paramedics, teachers, nurses, shift workers, various other service providers.
Tell me how does government respond? I am talking prior to vaccines before the less virulent strains.
There is a quick and easy way to develop herd immunity. This was not Ebola with a greater than 50% death rate. I am talking about something that has less than 1% death rate and primarily for people with comorbidities and the elderly.
So I am not suggesting that anyone who is high risk do this, but the idea behind herd immunity is that if 80% of the people are immune it makes it difficult for the virus to spread.
So we are really talking about young healthy people from 0 to 45. I was a teacher, you get the students to come to school but not enter the building, instead we walk around the track for about an hour and then go home and do that for the entire 400 students and 40 teachers. What this will do is expose you to the virus but in a very small dose and a weakened dose. As we know the sunlight destroys the virus in about fifteen minutes and the wind will disperse the virus so you will get exposed to a very small, weakened dose. Do this for one week and then resume normal activities the following monday. The kids can get credit for PE and you can count three of these days as "snow days". So you only miss two days of school, but 5 credits of PE equals one day, so you are only missing one day of school. Once school resumes you don't let anyone in the building with a fever. During the week off you sanitize the entire building.
This would work for cops, schools, colleges, the military, etc. Other businesses could have done the same thing. Costco could pay employees to come in for one hour and walk around the parking lot.
This is not some theoretical hokum. Remember all those rallies that were supposed to be "superspreader" events but weren't? They were outdoors. People were standing next to each other for hours. As a result they were all exposed but with a weakened dose and a very small dose. That is why those "red states" did so much better than the blue states.
The elderly and infirm could avoid crowded areas and do their shopping online.
However, you will still have people getting sick. For them they take HCQ the minute they feel like they are coming down with something. It works for any viral infection.
You also recommend that everyone take Quercetin, Zinc and Vitamin D to boost immune system response to a viral infection.
If despite all this they get sick enough to need a doctor you have Ivermectin.