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I am well aware of the numbers in South Korea. The virus is still spreading. There are still new cases, every day. We have managed to eliminate one human virus
by irq11 7y ago
I am well aware of the numbers in South Korea. The virus is still spreading. There are still new cases, every day.
We have managed to eliminate one human virus in history: smallpox. And we only did that through mass vaccination.
We have never eliminated a respiratory virus, nor have we ever developed a successful vaccine against a coronavirus, despite huge financial incentives to do it.
The inevitable outcome here is herd immunity. Maybe we’ll get there by vaccine, but not for a long time.
- yongjik 7y agoSouth Korea has 51M people. If we have 1,000 patients every day, it will take 141 years to infect everyone. We had 18 new patients yesterday. (I'd normally write a snarky comment here, but the numbers speak for themselves.)
- irq11 7y agoI don’t know why you’d write a snarky comment. You’re confirming what I said: the virus is still spreading in Korea.