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> most of us are likely to get this disease at some point anyway If you live someplace like South Dakota with grossly irresponsible leaders at every level of g
by jacobolus 6y ago
> most of us are likely to get this disease at some point anyway
If you live someplace like South Dakota with grossly irresponsible leaders at every level of government, this is probably true.
If you live somewhere with decisive and responsible leadership like South Korea, New Zealand, Finland (among many successful countries around the world, rich and poor), or Vermont, then probably not.
Notice that multiple effective vaccines are here. We just need to hold out through this winter, so that production can spin up enough to start getting a substantial proportion of the population vaccinated.
- overgard 6y agoThe flu also has a vaccine and yet we have never managed to eradicate it, and this is even more contagious.
- jacobolus 6y agoIt will be quite hard to “eradicate” Covid around the world, but with luck vaccines will provide lasting immunity, enough to end the pandemic, return life to more or less normal, and prevent tens of millions of deaths. Empirically, SARS-CoV-2 mutates much more slowly than influenza viruses, and if a new strain eventually pops up that the vaccine and people’s antibodies do not work on, the current vaccines should be faster to modify than to recreate from scratch.