Seems to me the same could happen here...or anywhere...until we get a treatment to eradicate this. Those #*$&$^ #*$&$& Chinese!
Even the Spanish Flu epidemic of 1918-1919 was the second round of the first version that had mutated .... The first go-round in 1917-18 was not as severe as the second.
Effective Treatment and everyone needs to wear masks. Preferably masks and goggles.
That’s why the lockdown policies are just doomed to failure. If no immunity is built into the community, as soon as the lockdown is lifted, infections are going to be just as likely to appear as they were before the lockdown started.
It’s not a sustainable policy. When the lockdowns started, they were saying they were just supposed to “slow” the virus so hospitals weren’t overwhelmed. Then the lockdowns were tightened as if the policy was to completely prevent the virus from ever infecting anyone again. It’s not realistic. And the cost is completely destructive to society the longer it goes on.
Society needs to be allowed to continue. Healthy people need to be told they can leave their homes and engage in normal activities, with all those precautions in place like hand-washing, masks, 6-feet distances, etc. Not everyone will want to leave, which is fine. But life needs to go on and people need to accept the extra risk that goes along with it.
This absolute fear and paranoia of death is not what made America great. The only thing we were supposed to fear is fear itself. This is why religion is out there to supply a belief in the afterlife. Societies function better when people are not paralyzed by a fear of death and can accept it. One thing’s for sure, this virus is not so destructive that it will kill an entire society. Putting some individuals at risk is not the same as putting your entire society at risk. And letting life and the country go on is ultimately healthier for the greater good than having everybody cowering in fear that they might die. This is a wussy way to lead your life and to run your country. And it’s not in the American frontier tradition at all.