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There is not going to be a vaccine and there is not going to be herd immunity. You can't count on either of those outcomes any more than you can count on there
by Theodores 7y ago
There is not going to be a vaccine and there is not going to be herd immunity. You can't count on either of those outcomes any more than you can count on there being a vaccine and herd immunity for the common cold.
However you can make it mandatory for anyone with cold/flu symptoms to self-isolate rather than do the manly thing of bring it into an office and work through it. You can also make it so that people have to go into quarantine after international travel. You can also do some testing.
Rabies has been kept outside of the UK for decades by the quarantine approach. Pets can go one way from the UK to the rest of the world quite freely but on the way back they have to be quarantined. With rabies free Ireland an exception can be made.
With this approach we can avoid the indefinite lockdown required until the holy vaccine is found.
- vikramkr 7y agoI think a vaccine is quite likely to be developed within the next couple years, the virus isn't as complex or difficult as influenza or hiv to target and we have some well defined targets to go after, as well as numerous vaccines already in clinical trials.