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By *inn OP Man
over a year ago
edinburgh |
My thoughts are the virus is here to stay with us. If they get a vaccine it will be no better than flu vaccine, sometimes works sometimes doesn’t and will give limited immunity.
Testing is more successful - maybe that’s the way forward.
We will need to find ways of living with it.
Life changing. |
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Nope!
Time is all you need.
Like every other virus, we just need time (and a whole lot of common sense).
It's not here to stay anymore than any other virus or plague has been.
Unpleasant as this is, it's not a extinction level virus so lets not over sell it. 10 years from now this will be a bad memory.
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Covid 19 will be off the radar in a few years. My view is that as cases come down it will mutate, as most viruses do eventually. Once it does that it will become less of a risk to anyone, after all a successful virus is one that can live and move from one host to another host. Killing your host is not the way a successful virus thrives. |
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Time will solve this, but the currency is years not months. We have the best scientists, understanding and capabilities now than the human race has ever had. AIDS looked an awful contractable virus for years, but today it is a manageable one through drugs and research.
Society will get there, just not in 2020 and probably not in 2021 - until then, like AIDS, we will learn to live with the risks and is will affect many victims. |
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By *ab jamesMan
over a year ago
ribble valley |
"Nope!
Time is all you need.
Like every other virus, we just need time (and a whole lot of common sense).
It's not here to stay anymore than any other virus or plague has been.
Unpleasant as this is, it's not a extinction level virus so lets not over sell it. 10 years from now this will be a bad memory.
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Thousand's of viruses and indeed the plague are still with us,eg hiv,aids,herpes etc. Without an effective vaccination,who knows what this would mutate into.It is possible to become more dangerous. |
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There was an Italian doctor reporting reporting recently that the viral loading of cases they are testing now much reduced from where it was a few months ago. It isn’t gone yet but it does seem to be weakening |
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Flu is an issue in part because we currently estimate which strains will be prevalent in advance, so that millions of flu shots can be produced. An estimate may miss the mark. Flu isn't just 1 virus, unlike covid19, so it's more complex.
Vaccines? We don't know yet. Tens of thousands of people are currently having some of the vaccines that are in development as part of the trials. We may fortunately get 1 or more that works. This would change the future landscape. |
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