How do you prep for an endemic Covid-19
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Topic: How do you prep for an endemic Covid-19
Posted By: arirish
Subject: How do you prep for an endemic Covid-19
Date Posted: February 15 2020 at 11:40pm
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If Covid-19 becomes endemic like the common cold how do you prep for it? ------------- Buy more ammo! |
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Posted By: FluMom
Date Posted: February 15 2020 at 11:59pm
| We can’t prep for it we would be like that movie A Quiet Place where they lived in fear all the time. If they do not find a vaccine we are scr@w@d. |
Posted By: Technophobe
Date Posted: February 16 2020 at 4:49am
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You prep for the period before the vaccine is available. 18 months to 2 years. ------------- How do you tell if a politician is lying? His lips or pen are moving. |
Posted By: WitchMisspelled
Date Posted: February 16 2020 at 8:01am
| FWIW... I think the best we can do is observe the same habits we observe during flu season. Wash your hands, use hand sanitizer, make sure your bacterial pneumovax is up to date so doctors can discern the difference faster, try to avoid big crowds and hope for a vaccine. Oh.. and hope this virus mutates into something less deadly. |
Posted By: quietprepr
Date Posted: February 16 2020 at 8:18am
I have read a few places (incorrectly I hope!) that they have never made a successful vaccine for a Coronavirus. Either way, if they don’t have a vaccine in that time period, hopefully it will have mutated to something less dangerous and some herd immunity will begin to arise. QP ------------- "Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival." - W. Edwards Deming |
Technophobe wrote:Posted By: Technophobe
Date Posted: February 16 2020 at 8:46am
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That is true, certainly where the coronavirus of the common cold is concerned. Several labs are trying to get a vaccine ready and one claims it has, but now the tests for safety and the scale up to production are needed. I'm not holding my breath (I'll use a mask instead). ------------- How do you tell if a politician is lying? His lips or pen are moving. |
Posted By: Glupa
Date Posted: February 16 2020 at 4:17pm
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Frankly, your question is too large for me to answer. The prospect of having this little bugger circulating like the common cold in its current state is frightening and world changing. I’ve read on these threads here of people still infected post recovery, people who seem to be semi immune super spreaders and even people being reinfected which seems to be the worst for me and grossly unfair. How to prep for something that is never ending? Beyond becoming fully isolated and self sustaining I haven’t a clue. A vaccine seems unlikely in the near to midterm and even then we have to hope it doesn’t mutate away from the vaccine to a point that its different enough to get by our immune systems. I agree with the above comment that our best bet is this sucker mutates into a seasonal irritant. That said, I don’t see any evolutionary pressure great enough for it to do so anytime soon. Sorry if that sounds overly pessimistic. I just don’t think anyone knows yet what’s really going to happen when this thing hits the rest of the world in force. |