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Originally Posted by StallWeezy
By January, humankind will be physiologically incapable of giving a flying frick about this. Shelter in place just won’t be obeyed that long; even in a war zone. Kinky stuff still goes on in Afghanistan. Clubs/bars exist in Iran. Life...uh, finds a way. Safety is a relative, self-serving illusion. The human psyche won’t allow fear to be at the forefront of every day life for a prolonged amount of time. Yes, I go through the motions of the masking and the social distancing. Just saying.
I hope so. I'm ready to get back to normal and I'm certainly not wearing a mask every time I leave my house for the next 30 years. Doing 'kinky-stuff' and flying to Cabo are two different things though. I think people may find all sorts of fun diversions that don't involve paying a bunch of money to sit in a metal tube with a bunch of strangers.
The government cheese is about to run out. Let's see how this economy holds up with tens of millions no longer getting in many cases more money than they have ever made in their lives.
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Originally Posted by Excargodog
SARS and MERS, because their case fatality rate was so extremely high. Don’t think anyone got past phase 2 testing though. Also a number of veterinary coronaviruses. Those had vArious degrees of success or lack of same,
Absolutely. Tremendous effort to immunize livestock against coronaviruses and of course fewer ethical considerations regarding testing. The results have been more or less complete failure on any sort of long term basis. Long term not being quite as important with beef cattle than with human populations.
Now I've never seen a pharmaceutical money grab like this one so I suspect 'something' will come out. How well or how long it works is up for debate. I don't think it matters because herd immunity is coming anyway and we've wasted so much money on this thing what's another $500 billion to the vaccine maker? Most people will incorrectly attribute the herd immunity to the vaccine though.