Yeah it really pisses me off that “getting back to normal” is so important. This is a crisis, we should have been handling as such, but apparently that’s not even in the realm of possibility.
I wonder if "normal" will ever even be possible in the US again. Even when/if a vaccine comes out will enough people get it to make it useful? Or will the US be doomed to perpetually have flare ups of COVID for the rest of time?
I overheard a convo that “the vaccine is just a way to make money while the news covers up the real cure” so that does t give me much hope about covid actually going away, at least here.
Where have you read that? I've heard that several vaccines are making some headway, although it is a long process and it could still be a while before they're ready for the general population. But I've seen nothing to indicate that a vaccine in general is a pie in the sky idea though.
lol, yeah they are very misinformed. There aren't any coronavirus vaccines as there hasn't been a need in the past. But there absolutely are dozens of labs around the world currently working on a vaccine for this strain, and given how simple of a virus it is I have no reason to believe that they won't be able to eventually come up with one. Fauci thinks the US will have one by the end of the year, although idk how accurate that prediction is, it may be well into next year by the time we have one ready to roll out.
It could have been a vaccine for SARS, perhaps? It might have been disbanded once the pandemic died down after it mutated itself out of the spotlight. But who knows? I'm just spitballing here.
I'm not sure if this is the same thing as what you're talking about, but back in March I did see an article that postulated that we might have to basically do rolling shutdowns. As in different places go on lockdown, then gradually transition out of it, but if they start to see an increase in cases past a certain number then they go back into lockdown and start the cycle over again.
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Yeah it really pisses me off that “getting back to normal” is so important. This is a crisis, we should have been handling as such, but apparently that’s not even in the realm of possibility.
I wonder if "normal" will ever even be possible in the US again. Even when/if a vaccine comes out will enough people get it to make it useful? Or will the US be doomed to perpetually have flare ups of COVID for the rest of time?
I overheard a convo that “the vaccine is just a way to make money while the news covers up the real cure” so that does t give me much hope about covid actually going away, at least here.
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Where have you read that? I've heard that several vaccines are making some headway, although it is a long process and it could still be a while before they're ready for the general population. But I've seen nothing to indicate that a vaccine in general is a pie in the sky idea though.
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lol, yeah they are very misinformed. There aren't any coronavirus vaccines as there hasn't been a need in the past. But there absolutely are dozens of labs around the world currently working on a vaccine for this strain, and given how simple of a virus it is I have no reason to believe that they won't be able to eventually come up with one. Fauci thinks the US will have one by the end of the year, although idk how accurate that prediction is, it may be well into next year by the time we have one ready to roll out.
There actually was a vaccine being worked on in the past, it wasn't profitable and the project was disbanded iirc
Edit: for a disease tangential to covid
It could have been a vaccine for SARS, perhaps? It might have been disbanded once the pandemic died down after it mutated itself out of the spotlight. But who knows? I'm just spitballing here.
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Any links to some reading on that?
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Haha fair I’ll have to dive through some threads
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I'm not sure if this is the same thing as what you're talking about, but back in March I did see an article that postulated that we might have to basically do rolling shutdowns. As in different places go on lockdown, then gradually transition out of it, but if they start to see an increase in cases past a certain number then they go back into lockdown and start the cycle over again.
The longer you avoid taking actual measures, the longer it will take to go "back to normal".
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