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by OatMilkLatte 2258 days ago
> Herd immunity without a vaccine is a pipe dream. Our best bet is to massively ramp up testing and contact tracing and really start pushing the number of infections down to a point where parts of society can start functioning again.

The problem is, a vaccine is also a pipe dream. So we're going to have to all get infected over some sort of timeline that doesn't cause societal collapse. Also known as flattening the curve.