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Old 04-18-2020, 08:58 AM
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Whether or not people gain immunity once they get this virus is open for debate. I read an article this morning that said that it's been discovered that some people that have had the virus and got through it have contracted it again.
I don't understand where this idea of once you get it, you are immune comes from. If you get the influenza that comes around every year, you are not immune from getting it again.
The reason that the virus has been so slow to spread in The Villages is that we have been very good at practicing social distancing and following other recommended protocols. I fear that if we followed the advice of the OP, the virus would begin to spread like wildfire.
Opening up everything now would be akin to saying, "The parachute has slowed out decent, so we can close it now."
I know that some people think that this is some kind of conspiracy or overkill by the government. But when you have 50 governors across the country and 210 leaders of countries across the globe doing the same things, it's pretty difficult to make the case that there is some kind of government conspiracy going on here.
It will be a long time, much longer than is being suggested, that everything will open again. And when we do get back to "normal" it will be a much different "normal". I believe that a lot of the protocols in place now will continue on a permanent basis. Stores will limit the number of people allowed inside at a time. People will still be staying six feet apart. Masks will become the norm.
Just as the TSA and confiscating small penknives at the Eiffel Tower have become a normal part of our lives, many of the protocols that we are now following will be normal.
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