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> if the UK government can managed to isolate elder people You also have to isolate young people with preexisting comorbidities such as cardiovascular disease,
by petilon 7y ago
> if the UK government can managed to isolate elder people
You also have to isolate young people with preexisting comorbidities such as cardiovascular disease, diabetes, chronic respiratory disease, and oncological diseases.
There is also no guarantee that the immunity will last. You can catch common cold (which incidentally is also caused by a coronavirus) multiple times. We don't know if that's true for Covid-19 as well.
- threeseed 7y agoAlso don't forget many disabled people as well so could be a significant number of young people as well affected. This is starting to look like a form of eugenics where the old and weak are simply left to die.
- cameronh90 7y agoCommon cold is caused by hundreds of different rapidly mutating viruses, sometimes infecting you simultaneously, and it's usually a rhinovirus not coronavirus. It has been studied and determined most people cannot catch the same cold virus again within a short-medium time frame.