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Is my plan for a 'post coronavirus' world doable?


So I have it, I am recovering, and soon I will be healthy and will not be able to catch it or pass it on.

There will be thousands like me.

The restrictions need not apply to people like me. We need to get on with our lives and bring the economy back to life. We want to go to restaurants, pubs, cinemas, stores.

We could even allow people who are young and healthy and with no underlining health issues to purposefully get this so that they can be soon regarded as an ALL CLEARED CITIZEN.

What do you think? Start to give cleared people a licence to be out and about?

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I think I heard on the radio something about identifying wrist bands for people who have had the coronavirus and recovered so they can do just that I guess. Then I suppose a thriving market in counterfeit wrist bands would spring up. This business might resurrect the idea of everyone having an identity number on a database again.


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If people start wearing wristbands I'm going full on Jeremiah Johnson!

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Not to mention if that ever happens we'll have to hear every second about how its like the Jews being forced to wear the
Star of David in Nazi Germany, or whatever book of Revelations passages talk about everyone wearing the mark of the beast in the end times.

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Here we go - 666!

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No. You still can be re-infected.

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citation needed...

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You can get flu multiple times.

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Don't think so - not as long as antibodies are in your blood. They are even using the blood of people who have had the disease and recovered as a means of treatment.

Guess the question is - how long do the antibodies remain in a persons system?

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Even when there are no longer any antibodies, the immune system should "remember" the virus to quickly produce the antibodies again in the future. See T Cells of Resident Evil fame.

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I've only heard of one case so far.

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And I have read that that person tested negative when she really wasn't.

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You mean they got it THREE times!

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Yes, herd immunity is the endgame.

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"On 27 March 2020, Chinese scientists reported that as many as 10% of those who have recovered from COVID-19 and tested negative, tested positive again."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019–20_coronavirus_pandemic
https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2020/03/27/822407626/mystery-in-wuhan-recovered-coronavirus-patients-test-negative-then-positive

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I don't know what to think. Guess we don't have enough info yet to fully understand what's going on. Thanks for that NPR link.

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No. Too little is known about the viruses and the body's response to it, to put any part of your plan in place.

Nobody knows exactly why some people have no symptoms and others go into multiple organ failure and die, and one possibility is that there are different strains of the virus. And that having antibodies to a mild strain of the virus will not necessarily give a person immunity to the deadly strains.

Another issue is that it is the nature of viruses to constantly mutate, and during an epidemic they reproduce so actively that the process of mutation and changing into different strains is speeded up, and when viruses mutate into different strains then the antibodies from the original virus might not work against the new forms. That happened during the Influenza pandemic of 1918-1919, the virus mutated so quickly that people who'd survived the less-lethal disease of 1918 dropped dead of a different form in 1919.

So, no. You can't assume that anyone who's survived a mild form of the novel coronavirus is safe from future infection, or that such people don't need to follow the same precautions as everyone else.

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you should volunteer to work in a hospital or nursing home.

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