That's not true. Plenty of people have been exposed to this virus and not got it. We also have other viruses that people didn't have immunity to and it didn't get a vaccine and didn't infect everyone exposed.I think the way you're looking at the numbers fails to consider that NONE OF US who haven't had COVID-19 have any immunity to it at all. So you point to places that have had minor occurrences of it so far, largely due to enacting social distancing before it got out of hand and you conclude that social distancing is not and was not necessary and that we should go back to business as usual.
I think that's wrong. Once exposed all of us will get COVID-19 unless a prophylactic treatment/vaccine is available before we are exposed.
SLC is just as likely to have a massive outbreak as NYC, just depends on exposure. Because we enacted the measures we did before the outbreak got out of control we are effectively flattening the curve. Had we not enacted those measures the rates of infection would be growing at the same rate we've see it grow anywhere these measures haven't been adequately implemented.
Again, without a treatment or cure sooner or later every last one of us will get COVID-19 if exposed. This thing is going to bloom in one place only to be controlled and then come back around and bloom again in all the people who have not yet been exposed.
This is not the flu. We all have partial immunity to the flu, many of us have been vaccinated against the currently most prevalent flu virus, and it still kills a lot of people. I don't care if COVID-19 has 1/10th the mortality rate of the flu it has the potential to kill many many times more people than the flu does if we all just carelessly get sick at the same time.
Besides we do have some level of immunity to it. Everyone has been exposed to some type of Corona virus's in their life..