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Aussie105

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2. What a lot of countries that went . . .
Thu Jan 28, 2021, 07:41 AM
Jan 2021

'we will just wait for herd immunity' didn't realize, is that the more the virus replicates in a person, and the more people carry it, that the possibility for the virus to mutate into different and more effective forms, increases.

Those that survive one strain may succumb to another. And so on, until you get a much reduced population that is immune to all of the variants.

Those who advocated letting the virus run rampant in order to protect the economy, need to consider the impact on the economy if their population is reduced down to 10%.

Solution?
Develop compound vaccines for inoculation to prevent the disease, updated to cater for emergent strains on a regular basis, just like the flu.
Add to that effective anti-virals for those who get the disease.
And you will still get an annual death toll, just as we do now with the flu.

A long way away from that at the moment. The UK and USA have a difficult job ahead.

Countries that went hard from the outset to reduce the impact of the virus on their population called it right.

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