If we flatten the curve , are we all going to get this virus anyway?

[Rathgar]

Is there any way we can NOT get the virus?
Anyone have information? Understanding?

 

[Guitarist41]

the staying in is to bring the amount of deaths down, and keep strain off of the healthcare workers.
If we buy enough time, there are several options.
1. Getting enough medication for those who do show up positive.
2. Getting more time to develop a vaccine.
3. Develop antibodies to inject people with to help them to become more immune to it. (Google Jacob Glanville bioengineering for more information).
Will all of us end up getting this? No, but a good amount of the population could. We have to face the facts about this. It’s not a death sentence though. The news does us no favors about all of this. It really adds a lot of negativity to all of our lives. Very much a shame.

 

[Cuchculan]

Means less cases all at once. Simple as that. But to even that far it takes a good 4 weeks. Just imagine 200 new cases. Each of them would have had contact with at least 3 people. That means that at least 600 more cases will come along. Of those 600 cases each of them would have also of had contact with at least 3 people. This would just keep going on and on. So something was needed to break this chain. So keeping people at home and away from other people should prevent this from happening. That is not saying there will not be more cases. There will be. fact is that not everybody will stay in their homes like they are been asked. People need food. People need medication. So people still have to go out. The idea is to slow things down. Who knows what might happen during this time. They are looking at things that might help fight the virus. These things just take time. They have to do trials and tests before they can release anything to the public. That does take time. That is hit and miss too. Lot of failures to begin with. Then they might find something that works.

 

[anxiousinamerica]

That's my fear too. They're eventually going to send everyone back to work, and we're all going to get it anyway. All these social distancing measures are really just for health care workers, staggering out the cases so that hospitals don't become overburdened. It won't prevent any of us from getting it...it's only going to delay the inevitable. Which, for us health anxiety sufferers makes it even worse, because it just prolongs the anxiety, wondering when our time is going to come, not to mention our loved ones. I wish I had some more hopeful words to say, but right now I just don't.

If it were up to me, I'd be hunkering down at home for however long it takes for this all to blow over, but considering how long they're saying this is going to take, I probably won't have that choice.

 

[guitarman65]

That's my fear too. They're eventually going to send everyone back to work, and we're all going to get it anyway. All these social distancing measures are really just for health care workers, staggering out the cases so that hospitals don't become overburdened. It won't prevent any of us from getting it...it's only going to delay the inevitable. Which, for us health anxiety sufferers makes it even worse, because it just prolongs the anxiety, wondering when our time is going to come, not to mention our loved ones. I wish I had some more hopeful words to say, but right now I just don't.

If it were up to me, I'd be hunkering down at home for however long it takes for this all to blow over, but considering how long they're saying this is going to take, I probably won't have that choice.

Yes! If we all stayed in if possible, the virus would have nowhere to go and it would die. But, of course that isn't gonna happen, so i guess we all just play the waiting game.

 

[Guitarist41]

That's my fear too. They're eventually going to send everyone back to work, and we're all going to get it anyway. All these social distancing measures are really just for health care workers, staggering out the cases so that hospitals don't become overburdened. It won't prevent any of us from getting it...it's only going to delay the inevitable. Which, for us health anxiety sufferers makes it even worse, because it just prolongs the anxiety, wondering when our time is going to come, not to mention our loved ones. I wish I had some more hopeful words to say, but right now I just don't.

If it were up to me, I'd be hunkering down at home for however long it takes for this all to blow over, but considering how long they're saying this is going to take, I probably won't have that choice.

It’s been said that this virus may well become a seasonal thing anyway. The truth is no one actually knows the mortality rate, but it’s believed to be about that of the flu, considering how many people that don’t get tested, and have no symptoms, or very mild.
If you ask me, people with our level of anxiety, actually can deal with it better considering we fear most things that are never there... but this is a real thing.

 

[smilingsoul]

Maybe. There are at least 4 or 5 other coronaviruses in humans now that we consider part of the common cold. 80% of us show signs of at least one of them in our blood, and the only new infections they get to cause, pretty much, are those in children who haven't had them before. With that high a level of immunity in the population, there isn't the capacity for a sustained outbreak. The current virus doesn't seem to cause major disease in kids either. Maybe we've been through this 4 or 5 times before, but without the science and mass media to tell us what was happening. Older folks just got sick and died - natural order of things. Once you've caught one of those colds, even if your immunity wanes some over time and you catch it again, its far less serious than if you were an adult who'd never had it before. There still could be something more virulent about this coronavirus than the others, but the scenario I was laying out is one possible explanation.

 

[Tommy]

That's my fear too. They're eventually going to send everyone back to work, and we're all going to get it anyway. All these social distancing measures are really just for health care workers, staggering out the cases so that hospitals don't become overburdened. It won't prevent any of us from getting it...it's only going to delay the inevitable. Which, for us health anxiety sufferers makes it even worse, because it just prolongs the anxiety, wondering when our time is going to come, not to mention our loved ones. I wish I had some more hopeful words to say, but right now I just don't.

If it were up to me, I'd be hunkering down at home for however long it takes for this all to blow over, but considering how long they're saying this is going to take, I probably won't have that choice.

I think we will be dealing with this for the rest of are lives like the flu .

 

[Guitarist41]

Maybe. There are at least 4 or 5 other coronaviruses in humans now that we consider part of the common cold. 80% of us show signs of at least one of them in our blood, and the only new infections they get to cause, pretty much, are those in children who haven't had them before. With that high a level of immunity in the population, there isn't the capacity for a sustained outbreak. The current virus doesn't seem to cause major disease in kids either. Maybe we've been through this 4 or 5 times before, but without the science and mass media to tell us what was happening. Older folks just got sick and died - natural order of things. Once you've caught one of those colds, even if your immunity wanes some over time and you catch it again, its far less serious than if you were an adult who'd never had it before. There still could be something more virulent about this coronavirus than the others, but the scenario I was laying out is one possible explanation.

Vitamin C!

 

[shezian]

this coronavirus isn't helpful to us health anxiety people, its making things so worse. We just have to take it day by day and not think too far in the future. I do worry if my body will be strong enough to survive if l get the virus.

 

[mollyfin]

Flattening the curve is more about slowing transmission rates so those who need hospital care can get it, and having time to develop treatments. There's likely to be a vaccine within the next two years but until then people are going to keep getting it. Especially if people continue to travel internationally. What I hope is that more people will be allowed to do more work from home, since it's being proven that so much can be effectively done online but I'm doubtful it'll happen.

 

[smilingsoul]

I'm hopeful about that too, mollyfin. I am actually getting quite a bit more done at one aspect of my job than when I have to go in - although there's about 60% of it that's impossible to do at home.I do think that if I organize myself right I could swing a WFH one day a week anyway. You're also right about the flattening the curve theory. Its going to take a whole lot of discipline and sacrifice that American society isn't all that used to though.