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Originally Posted by The Slim Reaper
Vaccine-less herd immunity scares the sh1t out of me. I have vulnerable relatives that probably wouldn't make it through if we persist with the eugenicists wet dream of murderous pseudoscience.
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There isn't a lot of choice at this point though, there is no vaccine and it spreads too easily to halt, the social distancing and things like closing schools and workplaces isn't to halt the virus it's to ease the strain on ICU units so that every severe case that can survive, does survive. The reason the death rate is high in Italy is that (horrifyingly) a lot of people who would have pulled through in ICU are dying in the hospital corridors. There are also people dying of OTHER things because all of the beds are full of Covid patients.
But unfortunately all of the measures are about slowing ICU admissions to a manageable level. It's still going to move through the population at some rate. Realistically a vaccine is at least 6 months away or more and whatever measures are taken, they can't continue for 6 months, or (being blunt) Covid will be the least of our problems.