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Re:California governor issues statewide 'stay at home' order by hutzlibu on Friday March 20, 2020 @03:18AM (#22635691)
" Diseases don't magically stop themselves."

No, but they usually stop, when the immune system is done fighting them, either successfully or not. And pandemies usually stop, when enough people build up immunity, or failed doing so. Or when the disease is so deadly it kills quicker than it can spread. Which is here not at all the case.

So even if nobody would be doing anything, this disease would eventually go away.

It is "only" a question of how many casualties it will take. And we are discussing the cost/benefit of the measures to society as a whole. Shutting everything down has real costs, too.

Re:California governor issues statewide 'stay at home' order by omnimus on Friday March 20, 2020 @03:55AM (#22635843)
What if you don't build up immunity? I've read that there it's not certain we can build up enough immunity. Everybody takes this for granted but what if your immunity lasts for two weeks?
Re:California governor issues statewide 'stay at home' order by hutzlibu on Friday March 20, 2020 @04:11AM (#22635917)
Then I would die, if there is no lung ventilator for me around. Eventual all the people vulnerable would die too. And the overwhelming rest would live on.
Re:California governor issues statewide 'stay at home' order by sizzle on Friday March 20, 2020 @04:47AM (#22636065)
Right, until we either go extinct as a species or natural selection affords us the ability to fight it off and that new impervious population survives and thrives, thus passing on the immunity to new generations of humans.
Re:California governor issues statewide 'stay at home' order by hutzlibu on Friday March 20, 2020 @05:12AM (#22636148)
"Right, until we either go extinct as a species or natural selection affords us the ability to fight it off"

And since the majority has no or very mild symptons ... it is not really likely to go extinct

Re:California governor issues statewide 'stay at home' order by surewhynat on Friday March 20, 2020 @09:50AM (#22637461)
Mutations. You don't want many people getting it because there is a higher chance it will mutate.
Re:California governor issues statewide 'stay at home' order by baud147258 on Monday March 23, 2020 @12:26PM (#22665538)
It has already mutated, the strains present in Europe aren't the same as the ones in the US and aren't the same as the ones in China