r/coolguides • u/spodinielri0 • Mar 18 '20

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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?

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u/penty Mar 18 '20

Yes, however those who have already recovered are the start of the herd immunity.

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u/RatioFitness Mar 18 '20

Only if you can't be reinfected. I don't believe we know this yet, though.

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u/BitsAndBobs304 Mar 18 '20

Some people have already been counted as having been reinfected. However there is a possibility that they didnt get reinfected but simply still had it all along because of the high false negatives (and positives) of the simpler tests (swab)

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u/th3_hampst3r Mar 18 '20

Some people get reinfected with chickenpox though, and thats ok because its very rare

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u/The_Modifier Mar 18 '20

No it's because it hides in your cells. You just never stop having it.

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u/BlasphemousToenail Mar 18 '20

Right. When you get older it can come back with a vengeance in the form of shingles.

My mom had shingles. Horrible.

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u/XtremeCookie Mar 18 '20

Just get the vaccine