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Originally Posted by MichaelFlash
My opinion is that we should consider Covid the new normal. I do not believe it is going away. I will believe it is going away only if a vaccine is developed. There is no guarantee of a vaccine. As such, do we stay home indefinitely? Always wear masks from now on? Always social distance? Or do we come to grips with the fact that this virus will run its course no matter what we do and unfortunately many will die? The good news is that as any virus, the mortality rate is greater in the beginning because it gets the "low hanging fruit" that are the elderly and people with weakened immune systems etc. Now all the news commotion is about the spiking positives, very little is reported on the mortality rate. Why? Because this virus is not killing at an incredibly disproportionately high rate. The attitude for the vast majority should be that we are going to get the virus. The VAST majority will survive. All we are doing now is prolonging the inevitable.
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Jeez, reading this the virus won’t have to kill me, I’m going to go hang myself.
And no, it won’t be the new Normal. Well, I guess it depends on your time frame. If you are talking a year, I agree, two? yeah maybe, but SOMETIME in the future all this will be a very bad memory; with or without a vaccine. I Present as my evidence the plagues in Medieval times and Spanish flu 100 years ago. There was no modern medicine or vaccines then, and eventually humans developed an immunity, or anti-bodies, or whatever, but life went back to normal. I am not at all a Doctor and don’t claim medical knowledge but am pointing out history (I think that is what is referred to as Herd(?)
SOMEDAY this will be nothing more then terrible times, I WISH THAT DAY WOULD HURRY UP AND GET HERE!!!!