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Originally Posted by mrmistoffelees
The key word here is ‘this’ should the virus be able to mutate to such a degree that it can escape the vaccine or immune response and is as transmissible and has the same levels of serious illness, hospitalisations or death then what options are there apart from to lockdown again?
Without it healthcare services globally would collapse which in turn destroys everything else.
Perhaps the better question to ask is how do we minimise the chances of this occurring again?
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I'm not sure that's really possible. You can neither control the spread of an existing virus (within certain conditions) nor the evolution of a virus mutating. In essence it's likely that this is some sort of evolution of the original SARS virus anyway, they don't come out of nowhere even if this came over from bats, pangolins, labs or whatever you believe... it still came from something.
Lockdown isn't the only option we have, and it should be an absolute last resort, I can't see how anyone should think it's the first thing we should turn to.
In that situation what would you try and do to keep everything open but try and stop people dying in hospital car parks?
Certainly I'd say we'd need to be going back to testing people with symptoms and their contacts, providing them with the free tests to do that, educating people when they need to test and have this as clear guidelines, and when to isolate, what this means etc. Knowing who has the virus at any point and how they can minimise spreading it will keep it under control without needing to impact on those who don't (except where it's necessary).