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Message: [QUOTE="Edward Sargent, post: 3473768, member: 912"] The problem is that the younger asymptomatics can act as carriers and spread the virus to their parents and grandparents who might be at higher risk of more adverse effects. Quarantine is meant to reduce the spread of the virus. If we had a vaccine or even treatment we could prevent the spread by vaccination. Take the flu for example. The flu like coronavirus hits elderly and infirm harder than young and healthy. Every year a flu vaccine is made from the previous years strain. In evaluating the effectiveness of the vaccine, we look at coverage which is a measure pf how effective the vaccine is in preventing the flu. In most years it is pretty good at 60-70%. It is never 100% which is why you will hear "I am never getting the flu shot as it doesn't work anyway". Last year the virus mutated in January and the coverage went from 60% to less than 10%. Even after vaccination in November I got the flu in February. I had what was described as a mild case probably mitigated by vaccination. It still resulted in a vicious cough that led to double hernia which I had repaired later in the year. I am 68 I do not want to get coronavirus at this stage of my life. Without a vaccine for coronavirus we have no coverage so the only way to prevent spread is to reduce contact. That is what we are doing by cancelling large gatherings, closing schools etc. I was supposed to go to the Society of Toxicology meeting next week in Anaheim however it was cancelled. I had already made the decision not to go. I actually think maybe more schools will find online learning better than the classroom and maybe just maybe the overall cost of an education can be reduced. I also hope that companies will find the relaxed work from home policies will also reduce the cost of maintaining large office buildings. You never know necessity is the mother of invention! [/QUOTE]

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