Wait... which virus are we talking about? The orange one, or the one the rest of us are concerned about? Hopefully we'll "cure" the orange one in early November (then, after about 10 weeks it'll be gone!).
This virus will be around forever. Viruses don't simply "go away", although they can mutate. If a vaccine for them is found, they become relegated to backwater areas (where people can't afford the vaccine or refuse to be vaccinated) and rarely make the news. If no vaccine is found, the viruses continue on their merry way and we either find ways to work with them, or they kill off a lot of people. This virus is no different than say a flu virus (this one just attacks the lungs and is more aggressive). How do we avoid getting the flu every year? We get a flu shot (although there is not a vaccine for every strain of flu), we avoid others who are sick, and we wash our hands a lot. If we do get sick, we stay home, get plenty of rest, we wash our hands a lot, and we decontaminate surfaces that others may touch (door knobs, handles, sinks, etc.). When does cold and flu season usually start? 5-7 weeks after school starts (kids are great germ carriers). When does it end? When the weather warms so we can get out and stop hanging around each other.
Right now, it looks like all those who are most vulnerable to this virus will be sheltering at home for the next year or so (or until a vaccine is found).
One school of thought says COVID 19 came to the US from Europe hitting New York First. That it arrived to our shores much earlier than previously thought only we didn't know what it was. I don't know if we will ever know exactly so there is speculation about the various possibilities. Da big cheese insists it is China. He doesn't know anything so he targets a particular scapegoat to convenience himself. Just like we didn't know what AIDS was initially originally. It takes awhile to trace a source and that may never happen with COvid 19. Thank you for your thoughtful and informative reply Shuhak. But you did not address the point I am trying to make. The brouhaha surrounding China may just be smokescreen and have no basis in FACT. It may have hit the US months earlier from Europe. After all da big cheese stopped travel from China but not from Europe for a very long while. In November I think some folks somewhere were aware of what was coming. Certainly they knew in December and in early January informed da big cheese who did nothing about it. He still isn't. Why not attack Europe as the source? Because they are white and many are racist fascists like him. Oh well there is no point in milking this cow. It has run dry. Origin of the virus may be known but how and when it got to the US may forever be speculation. :(
This post was edited by RosieG at May 8, 2020 10:07 AM MDT
It WAS in the US in November... possibly sooner. Everyone though tit was simply the flu. It was the outbreak in China where it was discovered to be a new strain.
Shuhak 