Part of me wants to catch it, beat it, and donate my antibodies if that treatment becomes more promising.
They say it could take more than a year, even from now, they could mean (March 30, 2020), to produce a vaccine. So, in that amount of time, it seems this virus is capable of infecting the whole population of more than three hundred million Americans, even pretty much the whole world. That could take out at least one percent . . . at least three million people in the United States alone.
But there is what is called "herd immunity", which I personally understand means that lots of people have gotten the sickness and are immune to it, and therefore it is harder for the germ of a sickness to find people to infect. Maybe it is like how a cantankerous person can't start an argument in the house of a family where everyone has learned how to communicate and be kind to one another.
And . . . even if the germ does get started in one individual, most people around that person can't catch it because they have already gotten it. And so it can not spread, like it could if no one else has had it.
And so, in herd immunity, the vulnerable people can have a cushion of immune ones around them, to keep them from being exposed to the germ.
So, I have considered how all the healthy younger people could hold a giant "sick-in" for one day, where we all would make sure we got infected and then all in one week or so we would get our COVID-19 done with, while we quarantine ourselves. And then none of us could help to spread the virus to seniors and ones with medical issues that make them able to die or suffer very greatly because of the coronavirus.
But you would have to control so many people, so that only the healthy ones got infected; plus, that would take most police and soldiers and younger business and political people and medical workers and others out of functioning to keep the country going.
So . . . yeah . . . why not have selected ones get sick, but under control . . . so we could pass on our plasma with antibodies to ones at risk of dying?
But you would not want to get yourself exposed and then spend some time going out and doing things. Because - - for some time before symptoms start . . . already you can be infecting others. So, if you infected yourself on purpose, in order to save lives with your plasma, you could pass on the germ, before you pass on your plasma, and that germ could go on to kill some people.
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rry; but we are helping, by not getting it and therefore not helping to spread it, and by doing things so we do not spread it with our hands. By helping to slow the spread, like this, each of us is helping the medical people to not have so many people to treat, all at once.
So, may be we could say this is a good time to be good at doing nothing
But, if I remember right, already various people who have recovered are begging medical people to use their plasma. Even so, each infusion works only for so long; it helps, they seem to be saying, but it isn't sustainable like the person having one's own immunity. What I personally understand, from how I understand my biological and medical education, is that possibly the donated antibodies attach to viruses and get destroyed along with the viruses which get taken out of action; so a patient can need more than one plasma infusion with someone else's antibodies. But then the patient can recover; so if it works, fine, I would say.