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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Eltab" data-source="post: 7960750" data-attributes="member: 6803337">I'm going to be a contrarian:The recovered Corona patients are a valuable resource.  We need to study the antibodies with a goal of building out Corona-resistance throughout the general population.  Ideally, that would mean vaccines.  But more likely getting a shot of antibodies.  What we will have to live with for a while is the idea that if you do get it, the chance of needing a hospital is exceedingly small, and the likelihood of needing Intensive Care is so small that our usual preparations for Flu Season are about the needed scale for the influx of patients.  Medically-fragile people are going to have to hang out with each other while staying away from people who can 'take a hit' but get back up again.  And vice versa.So far we've been looking at this from the Medical point of view.  But we need to get more broad-minded and consider Supply Chain problems: where will the new masks, gowns, malaria-drug pills come from when we use up the stocks in the hospitals' Supply Room now?  Somebody is going to have to make them - alas that the Fabricate spell is only a thing in our imagination - and that means people out around each other again.  Working.  You know, operating the economy.One other bit: Coronaviruses and humanity are going to share the planet for as far as anybody can foresee.  Our response cannot be built around the idea "never let it touch me ever!"  We can deal with the Common Cold, with influenza, with the other sicknesses that viruses similar to Corona cause.  We have to be able to deal with this one too.</blockquote>

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