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Re:Ask HN: How are you preparing for COVID-19 disruptions? by bluGill on Wednesday February 26, 2020 @04:35PM (#22427600)
Who knows. Viruses that become widespread tend to mutate. Most often they mutate to become less deadly - a virus that doesn't kill the host has a better chance of spreading. However the 1918 Spanish flu that was so deadly mutated from a less deadly version in spring to the more deadly version in fall so nothing is guaranteed.

Make your bets... If you think this will get worse get it now and live with lifelong heart problems. If you think this will get better wait as long as you can in hopes you get the less deadly version.

I'm personally holding out for a breakthrough in vaccines that mean I don't get it at all. Time will tell if I'm right. Time will also kill me - the only question is when.

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Re:Ask HN: How are you preparing for COVID-19 disruptions? by atarian on Wednesday February 26, 2020 @04:54PM (#22427784)
>If you think this will get worse get it now and live with lifelong heart problems.

Do you have any proof that coronavirus causes lifelong heart problems? TMK this has not been established.

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Re:Ask HN: How are you preparing for COVID-19 disruptions? by bluGill on Thursday February 27, 2020 @08:04AM (#22432842)
No, only rumors of it.
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