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You have a point in that this should not have lasted this long if the world was able to lock down completely until 0 cases for 8 weeks.

Other than that, what do you think would have happened if life continued unperturbed in early 2020? Do you think we’d be over it already? I don’t think that’s correct, to be polite.

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It's too late. The genie is out of the bottle. The moment the virus escaped Wuhan there was/is no stopping it. You'll never get a coordinated world wide lockdown sufficient to stop all infection. And being a strain of flu it will likely coevolve with any vaccine we throw at it. Local strains are already showing resistance against various vaccines. There was even a covid-19 breakout amongst the Yankees team even though they were all vaccinated.

Coronaviruses are a family of viruses.

Influenza belongs to a different family of viruses called Orthomyxoviridae.

Saying that covid-19 is a strain of flu is like saying that lions are a form of dog.

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