04-21-2020, 05:04 AM
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Originally posted by Durian Fiend
Clearly, covid presents a greater challenge to the health care shystem, and who knows how bad it would have been without lockdown measures?
PPE use is also much greater with covid than flu.
good points, we may not know how well the lockdown actually worked because the only other country that did not was Sweden. not really a big enough sampling of data to clearly show. The fact that most of the cases in Europe are the more deadly B strain of the virus is also going to skew the figures.
And those who got the A version and recovered can they be re-infected with the B virus and survive?
There could be some concern in the future as the virus mutates into stronger more virulent strains and there is no herd immunity from exposure to the weaker A and even B strains due to social distancing and lockdown.
And, the lockdown will likely not last long enough to see the end and disappearance of the virus