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Not for developing countries. And ultimately it is important for them to get vaccinated too, otherwise they will form a huge reservoir of COVID that will inevit
by bb123 6y ago
Not for developing countries. And ultimately it is important for them to get vaccinated too, otherwise they will form a huge reservoir of COVID that will inevitably mutate and come back around to us.
- anoncake 6y agoThat is not how it works. The Spanish Flu hasn't "come back" yet and coronaviruses mutate a lot more slowly. It couldn't really come back anyway, because it's still there, downgraded to regular flu.
- umanwizard 6y ago> The Spanish Flu hasn't "come back" yet Yes it has, most recently in 2009. From Wikipedia: “ Well known outbreaks of H1N1 strains in humans include the 2009 swine flu pandemic, as well as the Spanish flu.”
- lorenzfx 6y agoI believe you misread the abstract. After reading the whole article, I believe it should be "include the `2009 swine flu pandemic`, as well as the `Spanish flu`".
- umanwizard 6y agoHow is that different from how you think I read it? The “Spanish flu” is the name of the 1918 outbreak of H1N1. There was also a major H1N1 outbreak in 2009.
- anoncake 6y agoThe 2009 outbreak wasn't comparable to the Spanish Flu.
- umanwizard 6y agoIndeed, for various reasons including no world war and widespread vaccination, it was less bad. But it was literally the same virus.
- bb123 6y agoYour example proves exactly the opposite of the point you think it does. Every year the flu virus comes back slightly mutated, and the immunity process starts all over again. In the summer the southern hemisphere acts as of reservoir of the virus and vice versa in the winter. This exact process could happen with COVID too. You are right that it does mutate more slowly, but there are upwards of 4 billion people in these countries. A very small number times 1 billion is still a much larger number.
- anoncake 6y agoOf course it does. But it doesn't cause anything we'd consider a pandemic.