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WHO head warns worst of virus is still ahead

14 pointsby spkingabout 5 years ago

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paypalcust83about 5 years ago
The worst is ahead if people miscalibrate their habits based on threat fatigue, impatience, conspiracy theories, hype, and/or lies. Without a vaccine or 100% quarantining+contact tracing, the pandemic will restart after each lockdown and keep going until essentially everyone is infected. Roughly between 3-25% of NY state and 5-15% of Santa Clara county has/had it, and removing the lockdown will just make it spread like crazy. New cases would've stopped completely after 2 weeks if people obeyed the rules or lockdowns were enforced strictly and the infected were uniformly isolated.