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This is why I get so frustrated with people justifying continued shutdowns "until it's cured by the vaccine". Almost every highly contagious virus mutates quick
by overgard 6y ago
This is why I get so frustrated with people justifying continued shutdowns "until it's cured by the vaccine". Almost every highly contagious virus mutates quickly. Same with bacteria. The cat is already out of the bag, even if we do manage to completely eradicate it it'll take years. (To be clear I'm not against virus control measures, I'm just frustrated with the flawed reasoning that all this will just go away when the vaccine is within reach. It couldn't be easier to get a flu shot and yet we'll probably be dealing with the flu long into the future. If we know this will stretch into say 2022 I have to imagine that will change a lot of peoples attitudes as to how society should react)
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- timbit42 6y agoThe virus hasn't yet mutated enough to make the vaccine not work against it.
- overgard 6y agoWe don't know that for sure, and it has 7 different (known) strains already. Why would this be any different than the flu in that regard? Besides, we already know there are a lot of ridiculous anti-vaxxers out there who will refuse the vaccine regardless. And a lot of those people are elderly or at risk! The longer this situation goes on, the less palatable shutting down huge chunks of society seems to me to be. If this is going to be endemic, which a lot of signs and common sense reasoning points to, then the management of the disease needs to change.
- Throwaway1771 6y agoI would like to know what is known, if anyone has it handy.
- raarts 6y agoI am pro-vaccines in general, but I'll refuse the Covid-19 vaccines.
- anoncake 6y ago> Why would this be any different than the flu in that regard? You're asking why a virus would mutate more slowly than a virus that mutates extraordinarily fast.