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by forkexec 2281 days ago
A rational move would be to lock everyone down until a vaccine is proven safe and efficacious can be delivered to enough people. Since no one other than indigenous people living near bats have any immunity to beta-coronaviruses, it doesn't make sense to expose billions of people to unnecessary risks when we can pause nearly all social- economic activity until immune defense is possible or supplies run low.

The vaccine, once developed, should be free for everyone to encourage high uptake herd immunity.

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Do you think the world could handle two years of two supply chains being disrupted and shut down?