by Candid » Sun Apr 26, 2020 9:00 am
Could be. We'll try to get rid of it, but it's just another life form like a giraffe or an ant or a human. It just wants to survive like anything else does, and that means it has to find hosts. It will get as many hosts as it can; it's not fussy. It 'knows' it has to hide for a while in each new host, otherwise we could detect it sooner and knock it out easily.
Scientists around the world are working as fast as they can to find a way of detecting it earlier, creating a vaccine that prevents it taking new hosts, and killing it in any host it finds.
Donald Trump made a fool of himself yesterday by proposing we might kill the virus with a product that would also kill its hosts.
Think of it. This is a great moment in the history of Homo sapiens on Earth. Whoever first finds a way of stopping covid-19 from reproducing is guaranteed a place in our history books. However, if no one finds either prevention or cure, we won't have history books and the virus will win.
Quite exciting, really.