No immunity ends the shutdown

If COVID doesn't offer immunity, then shelter-in-place is a dumb idea.

If COVID exposure doesn't offer immunity, then shelter-in-place while waiting for a vaccine that isn't coming, is a dumb idea. If COVID exposure does offer immunity, then a <0.1% chance of dying isn't a good excuse for destroying the economy and hurting people. Either way, we need to figure out how to live with the disease forever.

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~ Aristotle Sabouni
Created: 2020-04-29

If COVID exposure doesn't offer immunity, then shelter-in-place while waiting for a vaccine that isn't coming, is a dumb idea. We need to figure out how to live with the disease forever.
If COVID does offer some immunity, then shelter in place while waiting for a vaccine is a dumb idea. Just go get immunity the old fashioned way.

You can't control a disease once it's gotten too widespread -- and we're past that, it's too wide spread. So let enough low-risk people get it, that we're not swamping our hospitals, and that increases our herd immunity and lowers the R0 (Contagion rate). Each person that has had it, is one more person less likely to pass it (the velocity of spread is decreased). Plus you have people with antibodies you can use to treat ypeople that do have it.

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None of this is to say it was wrong to shelter-in-place to slow the first wave and learn more. But we're past that. We're bending the curve, now what? I'm talking from May on (with the exceptions of a few hot spots).

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COVID Immunity and mutation rate
We should have knonwn that COVID's mutation rate was fast enough that vaccines wouldn't work. We didn't. Willfully ignorant.

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