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Infectivity is proportional to symptom severity so you'd get a steadily dwindling series of recurrences if the HK case is the case...
Phew! I was worried for a minute then.Panic not averted!
But if there is no immunity then how can there be herd immunity?Surely this strengthens the case for herd immunity, not weakens it. If you can catch it again and again and transmit again and again there is no option other than herd immunity, or a vaccine pretty soon.
Either that or us lot who've had the bug run around doing whatever we want and you none covids lock yourself in the house doing nothing.
I am working off the assumption that I've come into contact with it more than once tbh, I've been back in work since April and have gone all over the place. It's inevitable
I think what I'm trying to say is that - as I understand it - vaccine and herd immunity are totally different.It would be good if they could. But both big flu epidemics people have documented didn't work out like that did it? 1918 & 1957 both seem to have adjusted into the system albeit on a lesser scale, eventually.
That said I didn't think covid felt like the flu at all, so maybe I shouldn't compare it to it. It felt a lot grottier I would say
Africa was declared polio-free for the first time yesterday, mainly due (I assume) to vaccination.Well I'm thinking of smallpox which was eradicated by the vaccine wasn't it?
USA's official death toll stands at 182,400 as of now. With an averaged daily toll of 965, that gives us ~19 days till the magic number of 200,000 is reached. Given that the death rate is very slowly decreasing, and may be down to 900/day within a couple of weeks, I'm prepared to push the predicted date of what I'm calling "M-Day" out to September 18.Are you saying it's already safe to assume that MB is a total fucking dickhead?