Covid News Around the World One Year Later

[mrclark303]

Logic and the example of 1919-20 would dictate that once most of the population is immune, either by exposure or vaccination, the virus will basically die out the way the infinitely more deadly "Spanish Flu" did with no immunizations at all; and it happened quite suddenly too.

I'm not sure the same applies to be honest. The world of today is vastly different from the immediate post great war environment.

Although you had large numbers of demobilised troops and refugees heading home and spreading Spanish flu, the world's population was a third of today's number and people were far more static, tending to settle in one area, so herd immunity could be established locally and the virus found it difficult to survive.

Today we have 'vast' overpopulation, diminishing resources, driving mass agriculture and a highly mobile worldwide population.

Basically, a very big, easily transmissible incubator,for the virus to dig in, mutate and keep on trucking....

It will take a massive worldwide effort of mass vaccination to banish Covid19 to the history books.