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jtolmar • today at 7:06 AM • 1 reply • view on HN

It'd take more than a week, but even now, if the whole world coordinated a simultaneous quarantine, we'd eliminate covid, the flu, the common cold, and a thousand nameless respiratory cruds.


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yfontana • today at 9:01 AM

No we wouldn't, most of those viruses infect other animals as well, and would just start reinfecting humans.

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