What if Corona was here to stay? - Thought experiment

Bum Driller said:
This, pretty much. Even without vaccine we will become slowly more resistant to it, until at some point, perhaps 100 or 200 years to the future it has become just another common cold, of barely worth the notice at that point.
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Another thing to note is that diseases that kill en masse aren't actually that great of an evolutionary endpoint. To bring up the plague inc mentality, it's entirely possible for a disease to kill more people than it infects, and thus run itself dry. In addition, a severe disease invokes a severe response. Though it's possible for a mild, fast-spreading disease to suddenly develop a lethal version of itself, it's far more likely that more mild versions will appear over time, as diseases with high survival rates are less likely to affect their host's behaviour or spread.

The common cold is called that because it's a well-developed version that's mild enough to not kill most sufferers, or to even bother with it. It's just seen as an inevitability of Flu season.
 
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Meat Poultry Veg said:
We didn't shut down the US economy when Ebola made its way here. If you seriously think this whole shitshow is because of a virus with a pitiful case fatality rate, I've got a container full of aborted baby parts to sell you...
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Corona spreads via breathing. Ebola only spread like wildfire in Africa because villages kept bodies in their homes or in the street.
 
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If corona gets bad, I am quitting my job, dropping out of my dream program, and applying for an assistant manager trainee program in retail. I didn’t sign up for this shit. I would rather be in retail again.
 
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We wouldn't quarantine. We'd just have to live with it.

In other words it would be like how we deal with the Flu now, only slightly more deadly.
 
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the antibody studies are saying it's way more contagious and way less deadly than originally thought. so maybe by lying about their numbers from day 1, china encouraged the world to OVER-react to the virus rather than underreact.


i'm starting to think that even if it is here to stay, we're probably not much worse off for it. would suck to get it, but hey would suck to get the flu too.
 
If the coronavirus becomes endemic, then it’s likely that treatments will significantly lower the mortality and morbidity rates such that getting it won’t be any bigger of a deal than influenza. Mortality will likely return to where it was before as most cases are mild and more severe cases can be cured or treated. As it makes its way in the population, people will gain at least partial immunity to it, so future outbreaks are not likely to be as devastating.

A vaccine could be developed, which can provide protection for at least some time. Based on the characteristics of this virus, a person I work with in microbiology says that he thinks it’ll become a childhood disease that is addressed with a childhood vaccination, and it could eventually be regionally extirpated like other childhood diseases but persist in less developed regions where there are access concerns.
 
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If this coronapanic bullshit never ended, it would be an endless Planet Of The Germaphobes hell. Freedom of assembly? What's that?

Also everyone would do pretty much everything online, much to the delight of Silicon Valley, other corporations, and governments.
 
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Overtime, it would better adapt to human physiology, and become less lethal over time until it was no more dangerous than influenza (a disease originally from pigs, if I remember correctly).

Remember the virus infects people when it's actually adapted to infecting bats, and what it does to make a bat mildly sick makes a human very sick. Also, the virus doesn't actually want to kill you, it wants to live in you. Your death is actually a loss for the virus, as it won't spread nearly as far if it's trapped in a rotting corpse.

Whether we develop a vaccine, it burns itself out or remains in circulation, the end result is the same: The crisis will end. Eventually
 
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Everyone needs to get real comfortable with this thing. It's never going away. Everyone is going to get it. Several Times. It's a variant of the Common Cold. There will be no Vaccine, it mutates too fast, like all the other Colds. Mankind has nuked from Orbit only one Virus, and that was Polio. Herpes, HIV, Ebola have had billions plowed into them for Immunizations, all to little to no effect.

Everyone is going to get this. Masking is not effective
 
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Unlock the borders for people with non tourist visas and limit amount of tourist visas. End this mask bullshit and end the quarantine. Seriously, its had such a negative effect on everybody, it needs to end. The panic and constant fear machine needs. to. end.
 
Binary Code said:
Everyone needs to get real comfortable with this thing. It's never going away. Everyone is going to get it. Several Times. It's a variant of the Common Cold. There will be no Vaccine, it mutates too fast, like all the other Colds. Mankind has nuked from Orbit only one Virus, and that was Polio. Herpes, HIV, Ebola have had billions plowed into them for Immunizations, all to little to no effect.

Everyone is going to get this. Masking is not effective
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We also rendered smallpox completely extinct outside a few carefully secured samples in the CDC HQ in Atlanta. Polio is almost entirely extinct outside of Africa and most of the childhood viral diseases like measles, mumps, rubella, and scarlet fever are endangered in the first world and is only making a comeback thanks to anti-vaxxer tards and Third World refugees

HIV has been extremely difficult to combat because it's a retrovirus that specifically targets the immune system and making it damn near impossible to make a vaccine for. To be fair, it only became a pandemic in the West thanks to the rampant sexual promiscuity and drug use that was going on in the 1970's, and because HIV has a very long slow incubation period, a lot of people had no idea they were infected until years after the fact and they had spread the virus to others by then.

I think Corona will end up like the flu or cold and I think the general public is already starting to develop a resistance since the massive spike in recent infections seem to be asymptomatic and mildly ill people.

The initial wave of the pandemic in January-February-March was extremely devastating because it was a novel virus and at this point, the virus has mutated to become more mild and conversely we're developing stronger immune resistances to the virus as it lingers in the public.

Either way, once the election is over and done with, I think the COVID-19 lockdowns and social distancing bullshit will be over. Trump is pushing for a return to normalcy and the Dems are only keeping the lockdowns going to help them in the elections by pillorying Trump to the virus and the lockdowns.

If Trump wins, he'll do everything he can to end the lockdowns. If Biden wins, the Democratic state politicians will lift the quarantines since they've served their purpose.
 
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