Lmao it's not gonna be 7 years, where are you people getting that? Sensitive groups will be vaccinated before summer and then there's gonna be a dip in cases due to summer anyways. Then people will say fuck it, sensitive groups are good now so we're gonna have our summer. Then it's gonna spread through many young people and then herd immunity will be reached, the rest will be vaccinated until the end of the year. Even if vaccines weren't around enough people would be infected that after a few years it would either just stop or it would mutate into a less dangerous form.
It's already mutated into multiple more dangerous forms.
We could keep going like this before B.1.1.7. Now that's going to kill an absurd number of people due to hospitals getting completely overwhelmed. People who would have been okay even now.
It’s already mutated into multiple more dangerous forms.
None of the strains it has mutated into so far are different enough for antibodies created for another strain to not recognize them. Also they seem to spread more easily but not cause more serious illness.
No, herd immunity is the reason polio, measles etc don't really exist in the first world any more. Herd immunity is absolutely a real thing, unless it starts mutating rapidly enough. One issue is that with the new strains the herd immunity threshold is higher but enough vaccines are produced that it won't be a big issue.
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Lmao it's not gonna be 7 years, where are you people getting that? Sensitive groups will be vaccinated before summer and then there's gonna be a dip in cases due to summer anyways. Then people will say fuck it, sensitive groups are good now so we're gonna have our summer. Then it's gonna spread through many young people and then herd immunity will be reached, the rest will be vaccinated until the end of the year. Even if vaccines weren't around enough people would be infected that after a few years it would either just stop or it would mutate into a less dangerous form.
The multiple years left/it will never be over doom porn in this thread is legitimately dangerous misinformation.
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I don't think it's dangerous it's just kinda weird.
It's already mutated into multiple more dangerous forms.
We could keep going like this before B.1.1.7. Now that's going to kill an absurd number of people due to hospitals getting completely overwhelmed. People who would have been okay even now.
None of the strains it has mutated into so far are different enough for antibodies created for another strain to not recognize them. Also they seem to spread more easily but not cause more serious illness.
Spreading more easily is dangerous because it makes lockdowns ineffective and could overwhelm our medical systems.
Could. We could also impose stricter lockdowns and slow the spread enough paired with a vaccine program that picks up as we start to sort things out.
They also said that modifying it to cover the SA strain would take weeks for the pfizer vaccine, if it's needed.
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No, herd immunity is the reason polio, measles etc don't really exist in the first world any more. Herd immunity is absolutely a real thing, unless it starts mutating rapidly enough. One issue is that with the new strains the herd immunity threshold is higher but enough vaccines are produced that it won't be a big issue.
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a strict 8 weeks would probably have been enough
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