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Old 04-06-2020, 08:37 PM
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Good article, but I don't think it said anything substantially different from what I said. In a nutshell, it said there are 3 ways of stopping the disease. One of those ways is to have an effective vaccine which could be a year or more from now.

The other two ways could be called the fast track method and the slow track method. In either of these two methods, it takes a certain number of the population (say 60%) to become infected and to build immunity in order to provide herd immunity to the rest of the population. The only substantial difference between the two methods is how long it takes to get to 60%.

We've apparently chosen to take the slow method.