Re:Farmworkers face coronavirus risk: ‘You can’t pick strawb...
by bluGill on Wednesday April 01, 2020 @02:07PM
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>If this goes south, you may wish that you were one of the people who got the disease early.
Maybe, but the safer bet is that science will discover treatments (and ideally a vaccine) over time and so we are better off being one of the last infected. Let science learn on someone other than me. There are already media reports of both treatments and vaccines - only time will tell which work though.
Yes the Spanish flu happened differently. That is always the risk, but overall I think I prefer to wait.
Maybe, but the safer bet is that science will discover treatments (and ideally a vaccine) over time and so we are better off being one of the last infected. Let science learn on someone other than me. There are already media reports of both treatments and vaccines - only time will tell which work though.
Yes the Spanish flu happened differently. That is always the risk, but overall I think I prefer to wait.