Along with the anti-vaxxers
There is a sober truth we do need to accept though. A virus cannot be beaten, sooner or later we will get it, hopefully, it's a ways off. This virus, just like its predecessors will become part of our contagion cycle and we do have to build herd immunity to it. Sadly, that means Darwin wins out and the strong survive until we come up with a vaccine that can artificially create that herd immunity within us. Smallpox, polio and the like, were not 'beaten', we just developed a vaccine to increase the speed at which humanity would gain herd immunity.
I know it's a hard pill to swallow but we do need to stop the pretence that cleanliness will stop the virus when all it actually does is delay it from our immediate zone. Again, it doesn't mean that you should not practise hygiene, all I'm saying is that we also need to understand how a virus differs from a bacteria.
Have a read...
https://www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/viruswars/viruses.php
Fully agree, that is the reason why we need to slow the surge as much as possible,
too many getting ill at one time will strain our resources to the limit, if not beyond.
I haven't seen or read anything that suggests that Wuhan won't be the only city to suffer such consequences,
the hope is that other who have learnt the lesson, Singapore* for instance, are doing much better, then the European trend at the moment...lessons indeed to be learnt.
*Arguable that the SARS epidemic gave many countries a head start on Europe hence the better control in some places
we will most likely all have a very good chance of getting it before the time a vaccine is readily available.
the actions now are reasonably simple.
Contain..tried.
Delay..The whole responsible self isolation, hand washing etc,
Lock down..(pending )
then we might just be in the stage Boris suggested earlier.
It become a bush fire we can't beat, so we get no choice but to let it run through society, so we do build that immunity up..for most.
keep saying it, but we protect our neighbours best, when we protect ourselves.
Lets all be THAT neighbour
