Corona-virus Covid-19 - Predictions, Is it real disaster?

[Muse]

A vaccine will take about 5 years or more to get done. This virus is rife with potential complications because it is so haphazard in symptoms. Thus, it is requires keeping a open eye for even one subject with bizarre corner cases.

By the time 5 years have passed, the most vulnerable will be all already dead and the virus will fizzle as it slaughters the children who have the same genetic vulnerabilities as the mostly olderish adults who have dropped of the face of the planet right now.

The one unique thing about this new pestilence is that there is no universal acceptance that it is one, unlike every other major disease that has caused massive trouble to humans in the past. Since that is the case, a part of me wants a full, unbridled reopening just to prove the point that those people are truly fools.

Your feelings are pretty pessimistic. Not saying you're for certain wrong but the info I've gotten suggests that vaccines will emerge way earlier than 5 years to widespread dissemination that will really help quell this. It's going to be a lot tougher to get everyone vaccinated in the 3rd world than the first. Very important will be how long immunity is conferred by the program.

 

[mike8675309]

There is nothing self-evident that it was the animals that did it...and if it was really the animals, the chain should have been traced further back to their caves and their surrounding locales, which, by the way, aren't nearby.

If a court of law requires two independent witness to reach a standard of clear and convincing evidence, the wet market theory hasn't met it. The only animal with such confirmation is the hedgehog, which is not a bat or the supposed pangolin. In fact, it is entirely irrelevant that cheetahs and other strange creatures are there at all if no bats were there.

So far every one of the coronaviruses has been matched with viruses in animals, that has jumped to humans. Even the oh so regular seasonal flu originated in animals. I'm not going to point to the studies that have proven that because they are so plentiful it's ridiculous. There is no question. If you want to stop dealing with coronaviruses popping up every once and awhile, the world will have to stop using animals. full stop.