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Unless it prevents enough transmission to create herd immunity then any transmission prevention it accomplishes is effectively worthless unless the hospital system is overwhelmed and we need to slow down spread. This because slowing down spread but not actually bringing it to zero (not necessarily directly, but through herd immunity) still means everyone will be repeatedly exposed and anyone susceptible will eventually contract the virus anyway.

We need an endgame that makes sense.



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