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Keeping in mind though that if that means it's more contagious in turn, it also makes it that much harder to achieve herd immunity.

Not that we should be considering "natural" herd immunity under any circumstances. It's a horrible idea.



No one ever said you wouldn't get this though. The whole idea from the get go was to prevent a run on the hospitals, not to prevent society from catching this.

Every passing day more data and studies are reflecting the realities of this disease not being as deadly as imagined. So perhaps, just like chickenpox, its better to just get it as a kid then to face it later as an adult.


I'm growing more sympathetic to the wild theory that this is actually no worse than the endemic coronaviruses, and the deaths we're seeing are just what happens when a bad cold hits a population that didn't build immunity to it in childhood.




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