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0 pointstrompetenaccoun4y ago0 comments

Vaccination isn't going to eradicate SARS, you don't understand how coronaviruses work. If it were that easy we'd already have eradicated a whole bunch of viruses. Any year now the flu is going to be eradicated, just gotta vax more. /s

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usrbinbash4y ago· 3 in thread

> Vaccination isn't going to eradicate SARS

Did I say it it would? Pretty sure I was talking about smallpox, as a general example how mandatory vaccinations helped in the past.

Also, COVID and SARS are two different diseases, caused by different Coronaviridae.

Vaccination makes COVID less likely to spread through the population, and can prevent a severe course of the illness.

trompetenaccounOP4y ago

Oh and COVID means COronaVirus Disease. SARS is a coronavirus, both of them are coronaviruses.

trompetenaccounOP4y ago

>Pretty sure I was talking about smallpox, as a general example how mandatory vaccinations helped in the past.

So how is it relevant to this conversation, which isn't about smallpox and where mandatory vaccination won't help?

SARS-CoV-1 and SARS-CoV-2 are both SARS, it's not a coincidence they're named such. The media simply called the first one 'SARS' when there wasn't a second one yet. Then they labeled the new one "coronavirus". You can see even the people reporting on this are confused.

usrbinbash4y ago

> So how is it relevant to this conversation

It shows that mandatory vaccination works in fighting infectious diseases. Whether that results in the eradication of the disease, or getting it under control to a degree that we no longer have to have lockdowns, and/or masks in public transports, is irrelevant.

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