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> and a unusually contagious and deadly mutant will always be a possibility. Is this not the case with other existing virus' like the flu? Yet people choose t
by maerF0x0 5y ago
> and a unusually contagious and deadly mutant will always be a possibility.
Is this not the case with other existing virus' like the flu?
Yet people choose to go on with daily activities, even bringing it to the office just to feel (self?) important ...
- paulryanrogers 5y agoPossibly, though how often has a routine flu strain become a pandemic that overwhelms hospitals?
- maerF0x0 5y agoagreed in the early days, and i'm not scientician, but my understand was that once you've had it you become increasingly immune (or unlikely to require hospitalization). I was more thinking about the future, than the immediate response. Seems like someday Corona virus will be something we just get like a cold or chicken pox?
- nate_meurer 5y agoAnd also just like the other four common coronavirus types that we already live with.
- paulryanrogers 5y agoThere is a chicken pox vaccine. It reduces risk of shingles later in life compared with natural infection. My parents intentionally infected me early. I still got the pox a second time as an adolescent. Both times were painful. Please get your kids vaccinated.