(May 7, 2020 at 11:42 pm)Rev. Rye Wrote: I don’t think waiting until the vaccine arrives is a sustainable option, since the earliest possible time scale for a vaccine is next year. And there’s a non negligible chance that the vaccine is NEVER coming out, because we’ve been working on the vaccine for the common cold to no effect for decades. (This may be a sign that vaccines are better used for diseases that one only catches once.)
That said, several states are reopening, and the results are predictable. It looks like the key is going to be to try and find a good balance between how much we can actually go out with not fucking dying. I’m not too much of an expert, but the guidelines for a three-phase reopening the Trump Administration put out actually seem like a decent metric for once (at least for now). It’s a shame Trump himself doesn’t give a shit about his own fucking guidelines.
Why, yes, that does suck.
Ah @Rev. Rye my friend u are the voice of reason.
We would have disagreed on something before but I don't remember it. U don't hold grudges or resentment do u, same.
I heard there might be a vaccine before Xmas and recently i heard there might be one in September.
I have no idea how they've managed to find a vaccine so quick and how they have condensed 2 years worth of trial into only 4 months
But even if it was September, could America stay in hibernation for another 4 months... How many unemployed now, over 30M i think in the USA
This may be a sign that vaccines are better used for diseases that one only catches once
The disease that mutate often is a pain. The flu is one of them. It has countless strains and returns every season as a different one or even a new one.
One vaccine may cover a handful of strains, than another and another. So there are a bunch of flu shots.
Doctors do their best to make an educated guess as to which strain may show up based on the past data
Its a hit and miss. We had 4 really good years then last year was a killer flu
Meningitis is another one. There was 7 strains so they came out with PCV7.
A few years later it returned with 6 more new strains so they made the PCV13. Interesting to see what next
For the people at risk, the sick and elderly, they will need support. So many of them dies in retirement homes here when half of the residents would catch it and die.
I heard a suggestion that workers could do 5 or 7 days at a time where they would sleep at a hotel in quarantine, cos it was them that were accidentally bringing it in
Hospital beds will need constant monitoring. If there is a surge then some areas may need to lockdown again to flatten the curve and not overwhelm the medical system
We are starting to slowly open up so we'll see how it all goes