To develop, trial, and widely release a vaccine, sure. But for a nationwide lockdown? I just cannot see that being sustained for 1.5-2 years. We're talking tens of millions of people out of work, multiple sectors of the economy shut down, scores of businesses and jobs wiped out. And on top of that, the general stir craziness that will come out of people being forced to isolate for that long. That is not a sustainable status quo.
I guess I tend to lean optimistic on this, maybe out of necessity, but I have to think for as woefully behind and unprepared we were for this a week ago, testing can only get better, treatments can only become more available, social distancing and quarantining can only help limit community spread and flatten the curve. And I have a hard time imagining that a few months of this does absolutely nothing. But who knows.
You are on the money, treatments are the key to fight this FAR, FAR before any vaccine is even considered to be human tested.
On a western forum, and a an American leaning one I don't blame them, our leaders dont lead at all and cynicism on an already cynical as fuck forum is an all time high. Which again is understandable.
The thick silver lining is those experts who can lead are doing so and NOW even fucking trump has to shut up and listen.
But, People who spout the 18+ month timeline do so *without* taking into effect the vast undertaking going on right now in regards to treatments for this. They do so in face of persistent, highly likely to be successful drug trials going on. By many, many countries and more importantly by China who will throw almost everything as successful treatments. The U.K. too now has a rather promising drug ready for trials, we will see what happens, but it is looking good.
In every measurable, conceivable way medicine and treatment is radically different and enourmously advanced then it was even 20 years ago, posters in this thread give off the fucking feeling that if you get this the hospital will throw you a bottle of cough medicine and a good luck sign, no matter how severe the symptoms are. This is not 1920 and if we could show medics from that time some of the equipment we are using to keep thousands of people alive in this crisis, at this very moment, they'd think it's some sort of sci fi film.
Far too many people in this thread fixate on damn vaccine on the be all and endall. It's not, indeed it's a silver bullet that we are still BUILDING the fucking gun to be used in. When we will very likely have a fucking gun that wounds the fucker about ready to pop off.
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