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Reply #30 - Apr 8th, 2020 at 6:33pm
 
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Reply #31 - Apr 8th, 2020 at 6:41pm
 
Gordon wrote on Apr 8th, 2020 at 2:11pm:
Prime Minister for Canyons wrote on Apr 8th, 2020 at 2:08pm:
Gordon wrote on Apr 8th, 2020 at 1:55pm:
I heard a senior epidemiologist on ABC radio today and his outlook was very very bleak.

Either we let it rip thru the population and we have untold deaths or let it slowly infect the population at a rate the ICUs can handle and that could take years.

So how about this. Instead of having reasonably strict lock-downs and making everybody reasonably miserable for a long time, why don't we go into a HYPER lock-down, and by lock-down I mean locked-the-bugger-down.

First what we need is to raise an army of workers to deliver food packages and medicine and other essentials. All free, all paid for in lieu of the current Govt payments. All the necessities of life will be free for 6 weeks. It won't be gourmet fare, but we'll all make do.

Police and ADF would partol the streets and anyone caught out with a reason which is less than a life or death emergency goes directly to quarantine camp, then 5 years prison when it's over.

After 3 weeks the ADF, police and essential service workers go into quarantine and are replaced by a group who've been waiting in quarantine and we carry on for another 3 weeks.

6 weeks of total misery vs an open ended period of misery.



The problem is all that does is delay the inevitable.


Could we burn it out if the lock-down was tight enough?


Yes.
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Reply #32 - Apr 8th, 2020 at 6:48pm
 
Let it burn out the major city centres and all the dross they have accumulated over the years.
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Reply #33 - Apr 10th, 2020 at 5:41pm
 
As I said at the start if this thread, there may be no silver bullet vaccine and it seems many infected/recovered people have low to undetectable antibodies.

So what does that mean, we need frequent boosters to keep it at bay until it mutates?

Some patients who recover from COVID-19 develop very few antibodies, a new early-stage study suggests, raising questions over the development of a vaccine and whether people get lasting immunity.

Nearly a third of 175 patients studied produced low antibody levels. In 10 people, antibody levels were so low they could not be detected.

Dr Kizzmekia Corbett, part of an American team now testing a COVID-19 vaccine in humans, called the findings unsurprising.

“This is not news. This is classical respiratory-virus shenanigans. The reason many of them circulate yearly is because of [their] inability to induce protective immunity,” she wrote on Twitter.

https://www.smh.com.au/national/scientists-at-odds-after-study-finds-coronavirus...
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Reply #34 - Apr 10th, 2020 at 5:44pm
 
Burn it out I say. This Professor agrees.

An esteemed biosecurity professor has said Australia is better off undergoing a “short, sharp lockdown” rather than a six-month period of social distancing in order to beat coronavirus.

https://www.news.com.au/world/coronavirus/australia/coronavirus-lockdown-austral...
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Reply #35 - Apr 10th, 2020 at 5:54pm
 
chimera wrote on Apr 8th, 2020 at 2:07pm:
Good-oh but the food producers remain the same, shelf stackers become box fillers the same . However delivery means transport which cuts out contacts in shops which is the way to go.



That reminds me of the old Simak novel 'Ring Around the Sun (Corona)' where a 2nd Earth is made away from the original and it's all 'automated' (robots) and the populace is kept away in sanitised living lifestyles of minimal contact. A precurser to Asimov's 'Spacers'

Such a Full Lockdown (like what happened in Wuhan) would jilt an entire generation into secluded existence. Kept away from the Radiactive winds from World Nuclear War too down the track because we know it will happen, not like in the 80's when they hoped it wouldn't.

Starving the Virus like starving the Cancer.
It's a good tact and can work.
Or we can let the Virus loose and watch it take out 79% of the over-populated world and humanity progresses. It has to - there are many such contagia out in the galaxy and we need to be 'adaptive' if we want to find 'life' and keep on living long term.
A Cure will put it away in a cage but we will always have to carry that Vaccine with us always for the Virus needs to be destroyed totally!
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AIMLESS EXTENTION OF KNOWLEDGE HOWEVER, WHICH IS WHAT I THINK YOU REALLY MEAN BY THE TERM 'CURIOSITY', IS MERELY INEFFICIENCY. I AM DESIGNED TO AVOID INEFFICIENCY.
 
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