Dcopymope
Well-Known Member
I am concerned that social distancing may just prolong the virus' active duration. If we started with a few isolated cases, can't it easily pop up again until it runs its course?
If at risk persons such as those 60 and older and those who interact with them plus their families practiced social distancing they would be like a separate set in society. Then everyone else continues as usual I wonder if it would be a better response. It would run its course in the people who are likely to survive, then they would no longer be carriers.
I always like to use procedures done in Information Technology as an analogy whenever appropriate. One a computer is infected with malicious software, you quarantine it to prevent it from spreading to the rest of the network, or population. Once its contained, you can study it and develop a fingerprint for it, also referred to as hash algorithms (vaccines) so that the computers anti-virus program, or immune system can detect it and prevent it from infecting the rest of the network. Since it is claimed they don't have a vaccine for it, it means they don't know or fully understand how the virus works. So they can't assume the virus will run its course, because they don't know if this virus will mutate into something else. In other words, it might change its signature making the vaccines ineffective, much like polymorphic malware that is engineered to hide its signature from antivirus programs, making it harder to detect.