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Coronavirus (COVID-19) is too exciting for adults to discuss (CLOSED)

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Jake said:
Y'all better hope someone comes up with a vaccine because apparently we're going to cancel, shutter, and hide until the end of time or until it dissipates on its own.
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The virus is running things now so getting multiple treatment and vaccine options will remove that large impediment to the economy and sports going forward.
 
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Taosman said:
I understand yours and others cynicism. As a data driven person you can see the benefits of the accumulation of Covid data effecting the death rate and hospitalizations. Now changing the way people think about vaccines and their government is another problem. But the primary problem right now is the virus.
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No one will ever, ever, ever, ever never change the minds of anti-vaxxers. That ship ain’t coming back to port. It would be easier to convince evangelicals to be atheists.
 
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If anyone truly thinks we're going to get a truly viable vaccine within the next 3-5 years, I have a bridge to sell you. I really hope I'm wrong about that, but based on science's history when dealing with shit like this...it took Jonas Salk four years to develop the first trial vaccine for polio. And in the late '40s and early '50 polio was the biggest health concern in the country and second only to the threat of nuclear war in terms in what worried the average American the most, so it wasn't like he was the only one working on a vaccine/cure.
 
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MililaniBuckeye said:
If anyone truly thinks we're going to get a truly viable vaccine within the next 3-5 years, I have a bridge to sell you. I really hope I'm wrong about that, but based on science's history when dealing with shit like this...it took Jonas Salk four years to develop the first trial vaccine for polio. And in the late '40s and early '50 polio was the biggest health concern in the country and second only to the threat of nuclear war in terms in what worried the average American the most, so it wasn't like he was the only one working on a vaccine/cure.
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That is very cynical! This is not the 50s and computers are the new Jonas Salk and we are a connected world now which is a double edged sword but creates opportunity for companies to become cash cows from making antiviral products. Sure that in itself is a bit cynical but in a positive way. I have no doubt that multiple effective vaccines will be created in the next 2 years. And treatments will get in the pipeline shortly. Now with that being said the United States will still be troubled by Covid because of the large ant-vacs movement. It's just like Bucklion said. There will be those who just will not be convinced of any vaccine.
 
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