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customerserviceguy

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6. With limited trips for shopping

Reply to still_one (Reply #2)

Sun Mar 29, 2020, 12:32 PM

Mar 2020

and medical appointments (where telemedicine will not suffice) will minimize exposure of seniors to the disease. It won't work for everybody, but my guess is that a substantial proportion can make it to the time that a vaccine is ready. If seniors are prioritized for receiving it, that will take a load off of society's mind.

Ways of dealing with this that haven't even been thought of, or at least widely used yet, will gain steam, and will change the way that seniors can survive until everybody can be vaccinated.

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