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How do you prep for an endemic Covid-19

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    Posted: February 15 2020 at 11:40pm
If Covid-19 becomes endemic like the common cold how do you prep for it?
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We can’t prep for it we would be like that movie A Quiet Place where they lived in fear all the time. If they do not find a vaccine we are scr@w@d.
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You prep for the period before the vaccine is available. 18 months to 2 years.
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FWIW... I think the best we can do is observe the same habits we observe during flu season. Wash your hands, use hand sanitizer, make sure your bacterial pneumovax is up to date so doctors can discern the difference faster, try to avoid big crowds and hope for a vaccine. Oh.. and hope this virus mutates into something less deadly.
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Originally posted by Technophobe Technophobe wrote:

You prep for the period before the vaccine is available. 18 months to 2 years.

I have read a few places (incorrectly I hope!) that they have never made a successful vaccine for a Coronavirus. Either way, if they don’t have a vaccine in that time period, hopefully it will have mutated to something less dangerous and some herd immunity will begin to arise.

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That is true, certainly where the coronavirus of the common cold is concerned.

Several labs are trying to get a vaccine ready and one claims it has, but now the tests for safety and the scale up to production are needed.

I'm not holding my breath (I'll use a mask instead).
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Frankly, your question is too large for me to answer. The prospect of having this little bugger circulating like the common cold in its current state is frightening and world changing. I’ve read on these threads here of people still infected post recovery, people who seem to be semi immune super spreaders and even people being reinfected which seems to be the worst for me and grossly unfair.

How to prep for something that is never ending? Beyond becoming fully isolated and self sustaining I haven’t a clue. A vaccine seems unlikely in the near to midterm and even then we have to hope it doesn’t mutate away from the vaccine to a point that its different enough to get by our immune systems.

I agree with the above comment that our best bet is this sucker mutates into a seasonal irritant. That said, I don’t see any evolutionary pressure great enough for it to do so anytime soon.

Sorry if that sounds overly pessimistic. I just don’t think anyone knows yet what’s really going to happen when this thing hits the rest of the world in force.
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