Now that I am recovered from my coronavirus illness, I guess I am fortunate to have gotten it early and got past that. Tomorrow my brother and I are have appointments for the antibody test which will confirm that we both had it and now have antibodies. They can't say definitively that having had the virus and recovered and having antibodies means some level of protection, but it likely does based on other viruses.

I am convinced this talk of a vaccine by years end that would allow for a complete return to normalcy, is one hell of a lot of optimism and hoping. the last time they were rushing as fast as they could to come up with a vaccine for a virus was aids and 35 years later we still don't have a vaccine, (although we do have effective treatments). Before that it was small pox I believe and it took a full 4 years before they found the vaccine. So there is no guarantee that a vaccine is on the horizon by years end or even next year.

It may just be that this virus has to make its way through the community until 70% have been exposed and there is some sort of herd immunity. I am still confused as to how that works. And of course we would lose a lot of people during that process. 100's of thousands? a couple million? who knows. Mickey posted youtube video of the coronavirus horserace and the winner was "who fucking knows".

So again, if we all have to get or be exposed to the virus, I guess in a backhanded way I am fortunate to have gotten through it early. But what exactly does that mean going forward? I and others have antibodies now that afford us some protection of getting the virus again. So I go out to a restaurant and am exposed to the virus. I am not going to get sick again, but am I a carrier transmitting to others? What if I go visit my mother who hasn't had it or spend time with a neighbor or friend, am I exposing them? So many unanswered questions and none of it good.