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My biggest fear is this virus hitting an antivax community. It’s really hard to stop a virus like this in the US because travel rate is higher while we still ha

My biggest fear is this virus hitting an antivax community. It’s really hard to stop a virus like this in the US because travel rate is higher while we still have high density areas. It’s very difficult to contain without resorting to Martial law type of traffic ban which is not feasible in the US.

ipsum2 7y ago
Why? There doesn't exist a vaccine for the coronavirus yet.
- bitxbit 7y ago
  There’s not going to be one for several months.
  - sgc 7y ago
    It could very well be like the flu and require vaccines for new strains every year. It has a similar single strand rna structure prone to mutations.
robbiep 7y ago
What are your specific fears about it hitting an antivax community? It’s not like they have any ad- or disadvantage compared to the rest of the population wrt. Immunity at the current time
- anigbrowl 7y ago
  Even if they have no direct medical vulnerabilities, anti-vaxxers are prone to rejecting or subverting public health recommendations, eg voluntarily bringing their kids to measles parties to 'get it over with'. As recently as 2 days ago Rush Limbaugh (a conservative talk radio host) was saying that Covid-19 is essentially just the common cold and the health scare was misplaced.
  - robbiep 7y ago
    There are a lot of other groups this applies to. For example, the current Korean outbreak was started by a religious member who refused to be quarantined. The US’s response is being lead by someone that doesn’t believe in science. If you want to get worried about something, there are a lot of other places to start
meristem 7y ago
Are you concerned that, once there is a vaccine, antivax communities will continue being hit and/or spreading COVID-19? Or is the concern that non-vaccinated individuals will end up in hospital and get something else on top of COVID-19, and that something else was avoidable via vaccination?

ipsum2 7y ago

Why? There doesn't exist a vaccine for the coronavirus yet.

bitxbit 7y ago
There’s not going to be one for several months.
- sgc 7y ago
  It could very well be like the flu and require vaccines for new strains every year. It has a similar single strand rna structure prone to mutations.

robbiep 7y ago

What are your specific fears about it hitting an antivax community? It’s not like they have any ad- or disadvantage compared to the rest of the population wrt. Immunity at the current time

anigbrowl 7y ago
Even if they have no direct medical vulnerabilities, anti-vaxxers are prone to rejecting or subverting public health recommendations, eg voluntarily bringing their kids to measles parties to 'get it over with'. As recently as 2 days ago Rush Limbaugh (a conservative talk radio host) was saying that Covid-19 is essentially just the common cold and the health scare was misplaced.
- robbiep 7y ago
  There are a lot of other groups this applies to. For example, the current Korean outbreak was started by a religious member who refused to be quarantined. The US’s response is being lead by someone that doesn’t believe in science. If you want to get worried about something, there are a lot of other places to start

meristem 7y ago

Are you concerned that, once there is a vaccine, antivax communities will continue being hit and/or spreading COVID-19? Or is the concern that non-vaccinated individuals will end up in hospital and get something else on top of COVID-19, and that something else was avoidable via vaccination?