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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Sooner or later the majority of population will be exposed, most probably before vaccine. As long as people are not dying because of overwhelmed hospitals like in Italy, there is little to gain, but a lot to lose by shutting down everything, schools included.[/quote]
This. Moreover I'm sure better treatment alternatives will be there by fall.[/quote]

I think that's basically inevitable, just because there will be much more knowledge of the disease, and experience with treatments, by fall.[/quote]

Certainly, we will be better at treating this in the fall. But the fall also brings cold & flu season and increases all cause mortality. The ICUs start to fill up with respiratory diseases unrelated to the current pandemic. The 1918 flu pandemic had a first wave in the spring but then the big deadly wave in the following fall/winter. It's not just the primary infectious disease but also the secondary infections (pneumonia) that will land people in the hospital.

I wish schools would try to open early. Get the kids in 'classrooms' in outdoor tents and pavilions in parks and stadiums in July. By the time we get to November, we will nearly certainly be shut down again. [b]The second wave is likely to be much worse than the first.[/b] Yea yea, start to open up now, but let's please prepare for the very predictable second wave.
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It's not 1918, and coronavirus isn't influenza.

Maybe this fall, people will actually go get their flu shots, though.[/quote]

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