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Re:The coronavirus is here to stay – here’s what that means by standardUser on Friday February 19, 2021 @02:10PM (#26196744)
We likely won't eliminate it because eliminating a virus has happened only twice in human history (smallpox and the non-human disease rinderpest) and it's considered more difficult for diseases that can transmit to/from other species.

But living with this coronavirus certainly does not mean that 5% of the population will have long term negative health effects, especially in light of a dozen effective vaccines (and more in the pipeline). We should also consider what we mean when we say "long term" for a disease that has barely been around for a single year.

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Re:The coronavirus is here to stay – here’s what that means by monadic5 on Friday February 19, 2021 @02:33PM (#26197045)
> especially in light of a dozen effective vaccines (and more in the pipeline)

The US doesn't even have modern healthcare. There's no point of developing new vaccines if we're using the market—you know for sure it's going to go to fewer people than it should. For-profit medical research is fundamentally a death cult.

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