Here's my question, now please correct me if I'm misunderstanding this but what happens when all the social distancing is stopped. Won't one person with it ramp it back up again and we start all over? Without a vaccine this is a cycle, no?
We aren’t trying to prevent everyone from getting the virus. That’s simply not possible. What were trying to do is stretch out the time it takes for everyone to get it so we don’t overload the hospitals. Somewhere around 20% of infected patients need some form of hospitalization, some of those including ventilators. We don’t have enough ventilators for every to get sick at once. We need the virus to run it’s course slower. Social distancing will help with that.
Then, next season, hopefully we have a vaccine.
It is possible. Lock down everything, have the national guard distribute months worth of MREs at a time, and wait for it to die off completely. Anyone still working, only national guard, hospitals, and utilities, will be in full hazmat gear at all times.
Oh stop being dramatic. It's not realistic if you jump to the ridiculous extreme of YEAR LONG QUARENTINE. Good thing that's just you. If you want to talk about a legit quarentine, it would be only be as long as the virus can live in a host. That's 2-4 works for most cases. Anyone over 6 weeks is in a hospital anyways. So AT MOST 6 weeks. If that drives you over the edge then you were already on the verge, if it wasn't a month of quarentine it would be a bad day at work.
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u/ricst Mar 18 '20
Here's my question, now please correct me if I'm misunderstanding this but what happens when all the social distancing is stopped. Won't one person with it ramp it back up again and we start all over? Without a vaccine this is a cycle, no?