I need to become more educated on this. I never realized the common cold is a form of coronavirus. This is a long article, but it did help in helping me get up to speed...
https://amp.theatlantic.com/amp/article/607000/
Lipsitch predicts that within the coming year, some 40 to 70 percent of people around the world will be infected with the virus that causes COVID-19. But, he clarifies
emphatically, this does not mean that all will have severe illnesses. “It’s likely that many will have mild disease, or may be asymptomatic,” he said. As with influenza, which is often life-threatening to people with chronic health conditions and of older age, most cases pass without medical care. (Overall, about
14 percent of people with influenza have no symptoms.)
"Lipsitch is
far from alone in his belief that this virus will continue to spread widely. The emerging consensus among epidemiologists is that the most likely outcome of this outbreak is a new seasonal disease—a fifth “
endemic” coronavirus. With the other four, people are not known to develop long-lasting immunity. If this one follows suit, and if the disease continues to be as severe as it is now, “cold and flu season” could become “cold and flu and COVID-19 season.”
This would square with my own understanding right now, almost exactly. CoViD-19 is closely related to SARS, and very seriously could have easily been produced in a lab from the SARS variety, with and intent to engineer mare effective human transmission.
The Chinese medical folks sent an Australian lab the mRNA genome fairly quickly, and deserve kudos for that. In fact, the genome was given to quite a few high-ranking labs around the world. I could hardly understate how positive this fact is for any evaluation of the Chinese government. There are already multiple reports of vaccines being produced using the genome data, which enables the highest technology labs to produce artificially the proteins present in the virus, and develop antibodies to them, or use the proteins directly as a vaccine with little risk of disease spread via the vaccine.
Several reports are hopeful that we are ready to begin human trials already, and may have it in production on a larger scale in a month or two.
I could hardly resist telling everyone, once again, how to effectively reduce your own personal risk...….
Avoid crowds, meetings, any kind of public gatherings where you are exposed to scores of sneezing, coughing folks with whatever gamboo they have. Mark Levin flew to Israel and is claiming he has "bronchitis". But his raspy voice has been suffering for months, perhaps from his continuous screaming into the mike(lol), but whatever.... it's persistant and not really likely to have come from airplane petri-dish situations..... more likely lung cancer, imo.
The virus hangs in aerosol droplets exhaled in people breath, even when they are just talking. Stand back a few feet and turn your hearing aid up. The droplets generally don't float very far, a few feet I think, but then they're on the floor, or hand rails, or seats, or whatever surface for a lot longer. Wash your hands, carrying disinfectant wipes like Chorox wipes. Add about 50 ml of bleach to the little cannister, because bleach will effectively destroy the virus. A little inhaler or vape tool with a dilute bleach solution, used when near people, would be very effective. It should smell like a poolside breeze, maybe two or three times more, just enough to stop the virus without making your lungs feel burned.
air freshener plugs in rooms or cars, and/or a uv lightss like what is used in "Clean Rooms" and labs, or over stinky roller skate racks or bowling shoe racks commercially, would help generally in public areas. Airplanes ought to have a system like this in line with their air circulation systems and filters.
