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(07-07-2020 11:37 AM)Z-Fly Wrote:  

(07-07-2020 11:07 AM)Cataclysmo Wrote:  When? SARS, MERs, Ebola all dissipated at the onset, before the virus' had spread at this significant of a level.

Pandemics of this magnitude have rarely just dissipated. AIDs is still around, we just treat it better. The flu is still around, but we have a vaccine. It took nearly two years and 50 million deaths before the Spanish flu ever dissipated, and it was still around long after. The black plague lasted for centuries with high mortality.

Viruses eventually taper away but the general trend is that they are either controlled immeadietly, controlled with a vaccine later on, or ravish millions of people before immunity is finally acheived.

And even still, some of those virus' could return in novel forms and wreck us once more. That's why smallpox was so heavily observed as a potential bioterrorism agent in the mid 2000s.

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Yes, once it gets past quarantine, there are two ways out Vaccine or herd immunity. It sounds like we agree more than you are letting on. With that knowledge, what would suggest?

With the low mortality rate among healthy people, I think herd immunity is the most realistic way to go. Again, I'm not sure a vaccine is going to show up. Even it does, I'm not sure that it'd be safer than simply getting the virus. I'm not ready to jump in a line for a vaccine that was rushed through the process.

It's possible to have a combination of the two. Some get the vaccine and become immune. Others get the virus and (hopefully) become immune. Either way the result is the same - the virus has less and less people to infect.