For other viruses we have vaccines, clinically proven and effective treatments we can get at any pharmacy, and built up immunity from years of exposure. We have literally none of that for coronavirus, you blithering #COVIDIOT. I know you’re paid to be stupid in public, but JFC...
Technically, yes, we would benefit from social distancing for literally any virus transmitted in close proximity. But we weigh the idea against the ease and efficacy of testing and treatment. It’s trivial to get tested, vaccinated, or treated for the flu. #COVIDー19? Not at all.
We have very limited testing, a vaccine is a year away in the best case scenario, and we’re still figuring out what treatments will work reliably. The only think we know is that the #coronavirus is stable and mutates very little so a proven vaccine would be highly effective.
If you had the flu and couldn’t get tested, had to hope it didn’t develop into pneumonia or significantly worsen any heart conditions you might have because Tamiflu wasn’t a thing, and had no antibodies to it because there was no vaccine since the virus was brand new, yeah, ...
... we’d be shutting everything down. And in fact, if you open up Google for like ten fucking seconds, you’ll see that’s exactly what happened in 1918 and our response was also to try and shut down as many things as we could to prevent its spread. It’s almost like there are...
... people at the CDC and it’s equivalents around the world who know what they’re doing and why, and their advice is both more nuanced and deliberate than the social media ramblings of professional idiots mad at the world for daring to keep changing at the passage of time.
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