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You're smart enough to know that that's not NEARLY enough people to apply an average to.

Maybe no old folks caught it... phuck if I know. Too small of a pool...

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The solution has been announced by Bill already, he said the crisis won't end until we have a vaccine.

They are now prepping vaccine passports along with digital identification. In the future, you won't be able to go back to normal life if you're not vaccinated.

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Or everyone gets it and gets over it or dies.

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Second wave

https://www.express.co.uk/news/world...-Park-pictures

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Natural selection then...

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Hey, as long as no one allows anyone from China to come to their countries, more power to them.

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Pretty much. Now that's of course assuming you can't get it twice. If that happens, we are ****ed.

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Looking more and more each day like this is something that just sits dormant inside you and periodically flares back up. Like the herps.

But who the hell knows. :noidea:

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When Spanish Flu hit 100 years ago there were the same comments made as are being made now - this will, eventually, pass and a vacination will be developed

I'm guessing the anti-vaxers will just carry on without it

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It's scientifically impossible to vaccinate against coronaviruses. Period. Not something science is capable of doing, in 2020.

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Woman treated for coronavirus again tests positive

The first confirmed #COVID19 case in #Jiangsu's #Xuzhou again tested positive after his discharge from hospital two weeks prior.

Positive RT-PCR Test Results in Patients Recovered From COVID-19

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And your qualification, and the source of information for making this ridiculous statement is what exactly?

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Yeah, yeah, I'm not a doctor. But I've been studying since this started taking off in December and I've learned a few things.

https://i.postimg.cc/DwyYXL33/Untitled.png

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I'm dumb, but I'll try to explain my reasoning for that statement. Countries have been trying (without success) to develop a vaccine for SARS-CoV since 2003. Why would we all of a sudden have the capability of developing a vaccine for SARS' older brother, SARS-CoV-2? Another good example would be MERS. It has a ~30% fatality rate, so there would definitely be incentive to develop a vaccine for it if it were possible, but that's not something we've been able to do, as of yet.

Another thing is the mutation rate. There are already dozens of mutations after a few months of circulation, with 2 known strains. With it mutating so quickly it would be impossible to predict which mutation would need to be vaccinated against for the next season. But that's irrelevant anyway, because the very nature of coronaviruses makes them impossible to vaccinate against.

EDIT: Correction - there are already thousands of mutations going around https://nextstrain.org/ncov

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Many studies suggest this will never go away and it is a new “flu” that will be here on earth forever and ever. Who knows right? Time will tell

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When I was a child diptheria and polio were something to be scared of, they had been around on earth for ever - when do we hear of these now. We dont because of vacination - this virus will be beaten in the same way

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False negative rates are somewhere around 30%. How many false positives are there? They don't seem to talk about such things. If you google, only false negatives come up. Why? Because a false positive is only bad for the patient, so why would anyone else care? False negatives are bad for everyone else.

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Well, at least the odds of the virus mutating in such a way that it actually becomes more lethal or contagious, aren't very high.

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as soon as covid has a fatality rate of 30%, and the majority of survivors having deep pitted scars on their face, I'm sure we would manage this virus just as well as smallpox lol

As far as population sizes. No, no we aren't heading for standing room only. It all comes down to logistics. If we really wanted to, we could double our population and still have enough resources to spare. But that would require global communism, that actually works. Look at America. We throw away half our food lol.

There is more than enough for what we need. But not enough for what we want.

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Consumerism is one of our biggest downfalls.

Unfortunately, most of us here live off the consumerism of others lol. I hate it, but it feeds me.