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Message: [QUOTE="pj, post: 3479106, member: 2524"] What you guys will see is that we have another 3-4 weeks of quarantine-lockdowns to make sure that the lethal version, which is probably what took out the Kirkland Life Care Center residents, is eradicated -- that one has to be absolutely eliminated from the population, which requires ruthless measures everywhere it pops up -- and meanwhile delaying the universal spread of the weakened virus to get us past cold and flu season because the weakened virus will be much less dangerous to the elderly in the summer when they don't have co-morbid respiratory infections, also the medical system will handle it better. In another month or two, if the lethal version has been quarantined, things will calm down, life will go back to normal so that the weakened coronavirus can spread better -- the authorities will want it to spread at that point in order to induce some "herd immunity" before next winter and before the next re-emergence of the lethal virus. Mortality rate in the summer will be 0.1% like a severe flu, versus 1% if it spread in the winter. Best thing is to prepare, minimize risk of infection now, get yourself as healthy as possible so that when you get the weakened version in a few months, you weather it well. [/QUOTE]