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Originally Posted by aerohead
Without vaccination, and even with cautionary measures, the virus can still be vectored, providing an environment for it to live long enough to mutate into the next variant, ad infinitum.
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Remember the first H1N1 outbreak in late-'08/early-'09? There was no vaccine, no lockdowns, yet the virus went quite quickly under control. Some years later, it was included in the coverage of the regular flu vaccine often applied to some "vulnerable" people. I'd rather support a non-mandatory vaccine, with enough time to be proven safe such as the mainstream flu vaccine, instead of the media-induced panic surrounding the Chinese virus right now.
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The arithmetic is real simple. Get vaccinated, end the pandemic, open back up.
The cheapest way out.
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I'm sure some off-label medicines, which could be taken at home, would be cheaper and less prone to further distress people than telling them to only go to the hospital when they're already nearly dead. A friend who got the Chinese virus took Ivermectin and Azithromycin, while I took only Azithromycin when I had a flu in February 2020 that got my nose stuffy in a much unusual way, even though I didn't develop an actual shortness of breath. A cousin of mine OTOH had it, yet I don't know what medicines she took.