That’s what I was thinking. At least 90% mortality, and no one has a clue? I think it’s kinda amazing. We have known about this virus for quite a while. There have been survivors, and yet no one has yet come up with a vaccine?
You would think that someone would have by now. And now, here it is in a city of 2 millions people with international flights. I don’t have a lot of confidence that they’ll be able to isolate it this time. Sure hope it doesn’t escape and make its’ way here.
To be fair, vaccines can be hard sometimes. They depend on the virus having some unique feature on its “skin” that the immune system can be taught to target. If, for example, the proteins on the virus’s coat are the same as proteins found in the human body, it would be a bad thing for the immune system to start attacking that.
That’s just one of many complications with coming up with a vaccine.
That would be a self quarantine lasting for a very long time and no one would be at work and power and water would go out with no one to keep them going. The country would not be as we know it now. You wouldn't be able to leave your property for fear any person you saw had it but it hadn't shown symptoms yet on that person. With 90% dying, the country would never be the same.
Whole cities would need to seal any access into their city if no one in the city had it. Any county with none in their county sick, all access to that county would have to be sealed. If a state didn't have anyone sick, all access into that state would have to be sealed and air travel into that state stopped, too. How realistic is it that no one would get into that state or county or city?
The only way to stay safe in this kind of situation, is to have what you need for a long time so you don't have to leave your property.