re: Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) ***W.H.O. DECLARES A GLOBAL PANDEMIC***

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When appropriate herd immunity thresholds are reached, or when the mythical, safe and effective, vaccine arrives.

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I don't think we're anywhere close to this without more evidence of the Tcell immunity. Vaccine, maybe, but who knows. There's already a huge drive by the same people not wearing masks to not take the "government vaccine", either.

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Immunity is also likely helping those areas hit hardest at the beginning...which wasn't areas in the South.

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We'll have a better idea about this once New York opens their schools up here shortly. I still think this has much more to do with stricter mitigation efforts in northern states.

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Check out Hawaii...strict lockdown and mask use. Tiny initial outbreak...now spiking. What changed? What's happening in a location at a similar latitude in Hong Kong? The Philippines? Japan?

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I'll have to look at those. Admittedly, I haven't kept up as much with them lately.

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Just because it's behaving differently than what we'd expect when it comes to season

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Again, it could be seasonally driven....I just don't think we have a good way to tell that yet since everyone is not operating in the same way currently on a social level; but it's still doing things differently than other similar viruses and that was the earlier question.