So ... Thinking about the possible "reactivation" of the virus ...
I know that some people are jumping to the worst possible scenario: linking this to HIV (I've seen a lot of people do it on other forums already; there's a lot of panic with this news from South Korea). Well, let's just say for a minute that it is the worst case scenario, and this virus is actually an airborne version of HIV. If that's the case, then I think we all can easily say that this virus was man made as a weapon. If this thing is stuck with you forever, and lays dormant until you get sick with something else, then isn't that just too perfect? Of course it would be a weapon if that's truly the case. HIV isn't an airborne disease; in order for it to be so, then there has to be something man-made/manufactured about it.
However, there are a lot of viruses that lay dormant for a while until it's completely gone from your system. Other types of Coronaviruses, even ... Including the common cold. There's also the chickenpox: if you've had them, the virus can still be dormant in your body and come back multiple years later in the form of the shingles virus (this doesn't happen to most people who get the chickenpox though-- keep that in mind). If that's the case for COVID-19, then that's terrible news (especially because that means we are definitely going to be dealing with this bullshit for a long time before it's behind finally us). It would sound much less like a bioweapon than an airborne version of HIV would, at the very least.
South Korea hasn't proven that the reactivation is real just yet, though. They're testing it right now. Right now, it's looking more like the testing for COVID-19 being a lot more fallible than previously thought. There's always the chance that this fucking thing becomes dormant and re-emerges though, as that isn't an uncommon thing with viruses.
I think that if this thing were truly linked to something like HIV, though, then one would think that doctors would be determining these tests through bloodwork instead of cotton swabbing, right?