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Yes, it isn't even about protecting the old. The sole purpose of the quarantines and self distancing is to avoid the healthcare system to collapse. Corona will
by dna_polymerase 7y ago
Yes, it isn't even about protecting the old. The sole purpose of the quarantines and self distancing is to avoid the healthcare system to collapse. Corona will become a constant companion for mankind, unless people get, one day, broadly vaxxed. But since we can't get people to vax for far worse diseases this won't happen.
- umanwizard 7y agoAgreeing with your point: there is only one human virus thought to have been successfully totally eradicated: smallpox, which plagued humanity from ancient history until the late 1970s. But herd immunity due to widespread (if imperfect) vaccination gets you much of the way there. Assuming flu vaccines continue to work, there probably can't be flu outbreaks that kill tens of millions of people as there have been in the past.