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curl-6 on 16 November 2020
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Nighthawk117 said:
curl-6 said:
Nighthawk117 said:
Your right in one regard....they are not in the same family of viruses...If you believe we will eliminate Covid-19 so easily then...God bless you... I hope your right...As for me, I am more cynical..

Oh it definitely won't be easy, and a vaccine will not eliminate COVID overnight. It will take a long time for supply to ramp up and immunization coverage to become widespread enough to arrest the spread of the disease worldwide, and even if we pursue a strategy of global eradication, it will takes years to wipe it out completely even with effective vaccines.

This is just an encouraging first step.

Yes, it is a good first step.  I'll give you that. But, we are in for one hell of a roller coaster ride over the next year or so. Worse than 2020.

Well, I'd say next year should be better than 2020 thanks to not only vaccines becoming available but treatments continuing to improve as new drugs come online and studies on old ones show which ones can be helpful. COVID will still be widespread and causing plenty of mayhem through 2021 but at least we'll have more and better tools to fight it than we've had this year.