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For starters immune response is extremely complex and usually vaccines are a degraded or completely sterilized version of the viruses they are supposed to vaccinate you against, mixed with something that forces your immune system to go into overdrive, sniff them out, kill them and create a bunch...

A lot of people were dying of them already in Europe, too.It just happened more gradually. The average life expectancy in pre-industrial Europe was about 30 for a reason. Massive child and infant mortality, and somewhat better medicine and diet. I think one big point of contention were some...

The "mild" ebola has done what most viruses do, adapt to the environment. Viruses are programmed to reproduce, and killing the host doesn't help. As Ron Paul saud, viruses naturally become less lethal in contact with humans. Did the cliffs become less steep as the Mountain Goat evolved? Did...

Yes you can catch two diseases at the same time. Then hopefully your organism will get its act together and cure you, or at least suppress the virus load to a level where transmission is highly unlikely. In any case the only thing that could do real damage is a disease with a high R0, and I...

First time I have heard about that. Vaccines work on viruses, and viruses can not reproduce in an organism that has gained immunity through natural or unnatural means. With bacteria you might have something, but most of the bacterial diseases that existed back then exist now as well, and we...

Le meme sums it up. On a more serious note, with a younger, more physically fit population that doesn't suffer from mass obesity and all sorts of vitamin deficiencies the Rona will hardly be noticed, IMHO.