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nowrongwrong 6 points ago +6 / -0

Their theory was that we could lockdown long enough to develop and distribute a vaccine which would then artificially provide herd immunity.

But that is a completely unproven and untested approach, one that has never been tried (let alone accomplished) in the history of the planet.

It is just an insane type of gamble when we already have a well-known, well-documented and well-understood solution via natural herd immunity.

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stoic_troll 4 points ago +4 / -0

That approach would only make sense if it was literally a Black Plague event.

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nowrongwrong 5 points ago +5 / -0

Exactly right. I mean if this was an airborne version of Ebola then I would fucking be in a hazmat suit before I left my bedroom.