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All my reading on the subject (and, that's a lot) flattening the curve is important to protect our hospital System for the next round! We are not moving out of the #COVID pandemic, we are approaching the centre of the forest.
As we garner from considerable history on pandemics, round two will be bigger and much meaner than round one!
Our biggest problem is politics. The provincial Conservatives who were put into office by Bell Media are sensitive to Donald Trump's dilemma on trying to get re-elected in the USA and his thrust on re-starting the economy. Canadian politicians with the notable exception of Ontario and Quebec are siding mindlessly with Trump's action in this direction.
If Trump turns on the economy doing away with the meagre show of social distancing in the US,
it will be tantamount to mass murder. Christian fundamentalists are the heart of the Conservative movement. They are your anti-vax people; the people who support herd immunization as a means to do away with the Virus. They tend to think the pile of bodies are someone else's but, they will find this Virus does not discriminate and quite possibly can mutate before a vax is found.
As of now, there is no proof the serum transplants with antibodies are going to work as a cure although, they just may. Another thing, there is no proof or even indications that the antibodies produced during an infection will in any way stop a new infection.
Today, news out that there are 5 new kinds of COVID (SARS) virus found in Bats. Work is being done now to find out how quickly they will transfer to humans and other mammals.
Food for thought.
As we garner from considerable history on pandemics, round two will be bigger and much meaner than round one!
Our biggest problem is politics. The provincial Conservatives who were put into office by Bell Media are sensitive to Donald Trump's dilemma on trying to get re-elected in the USA and his thrust on re-starting the economy. Canadian politicians with the notable exception of Ontario and Quebec are siding mindlessly with Trump's action in this direction.
If Trump turns on the economy doing away with the meagre show of social distancing in the US,
it will be tantamount to mass murder. Christian fundamentalists are the heart of the Conservative movement. They are your anti-vax people; the people who support herd immunization as a means to do away with the Virus. They tend to think the pile of bodies are someone else's but, they will find this Virus does not discriminate and quite possibly can mutate before a vax is found.
As of now, there is no proof the serum transplants with antibodies are going to work as a cure although, they just may. Another thing, there is no proof or even indications that the antibodies produced during an infection will in any way stop a new infection.
Today, news out that there are 5 new kinds of COVID (SARS) virus found in Bats. Work is being done now to find out how quickly they will transfer to humans and other mammals.
Food for thought.
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