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Originally Posted by Aurel
The virus mutates so much that a vaccine will never work, or it will be like the flu vaccine: a crapshoot that needs to be redone every year. Of course, that is every drug company’s dream, and there is a lot more money to be made than in a prophylactic drug.
And of course, just like computer viruses, new ones will emerge, either natural or man made. Bill Gates knows about that very well...
This is why we are headed into a medical tyranny of forced vaccinations, or a life of self distancing and wearing masks, unless an efficient drug is proven quickly. I had big hopes on HCQ, and it may not be the silver bullet it was touted to be, as more studies unravel. Up to the next then.
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The virus has not mutated much at all, granted it’s only been in humans for several months. One thing we (humankind) have done right is sequence the heck out of many samples of SAR-COV-2. No doubt it will eventually mutate more, but so far so good.
It may well end up like the flu. When influenza first hit North America, it was devastating. I’m referring of course to the impact of European diseases on Native Americans, similar to how Cortez’s few men conquered the Aztecs with their diseases. But eventually immunities developed and now the flu is a routine part of the background.
I think that’s what will happen with this virus. It will mutate to be milder, more people will develop immunity to most strains of it, we’ll learn how to treat it and how to vaccinate against it, not perfectly but well enough.
Until then . . . I’m expecting us to wear masks for many months if not a year. And I’m concerned that the economy is going to be underwater for longer.
It really isn’t enough if the governor of your state says “open up”. Or if a few rural protestors and a bunch of 20-something young adults promptly go back to bowling alleys, bars, movies, restaurants, hairdressers, shops. The money and spending power in the US is in the middle/aged or older, better educated, more white collar part of the population. If they don’t feel safe, this recession/depression continues. The people rushing back to the bar will still be unemployed.
For that reason if nothing else, the Federal govt should be pouring tens of billions into mass testing programs and ample covid treatment facilities, and being incredibly visible about it. It should take the most trusted medical authorities, starting with Fauci, and use them in a
PR campaign to reassure people. Hire Oprah to tell Americans they are being safeguarded - ick but do what you have to do.
Instead the Fed govt is chaotically changing its message every week, publicly telling states to find their own tests, PPE, vents, feuding with governors, and refusing to financially help state and local govts, allowing its surrogates to say old people’s deaths are an acceptable price.
This is not how you coax and reassure Americans to go out and spend money. At least not the bulk of the American consumers who have the bulk of the spending power.