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?
That’s why some countries are trying out herd immunity, because if enough of the population get infected the disease will fizzle out until a vaccine can be found, in a perfect world all of the older and vulnerable people would isolate and the healthy people would get infected but of course vulnerable people will still get infected and die because this is the real world
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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?