Originally Posted by
Loren Pechtel
Since it can be spread by those without symptoms there's no stopping it. However, we will probably have a vaccine or treatment in time, the more we slow it down the fewer people will die before that happens. And by keeping the case count down we reduce the number that die because they can't get medical care.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/07/health/coronavirus-mutations-analysis/index.html
It will likely stop or slow down itself before we have a vaccine. The sickest are too sick to socialize so the most virulent strains don't spread to as many people as the less virulent strains which continue to get spread but induce only mild symptoms and immunity in the host. Viruses tend to mutate randomly and become less virulent after that critical but random mutation that allowed then to infect humans at all. RNA viruses don't have a brain so they cannot proofread their bad copies and fix them, therefore they are subject to the positive entropy of nature to create more disorder within their own ranks. And disorder and randomness favors less virulence, not more.
The reason we contain now is to delay the peak so the peak will be shallower and not over-stress the medical system. And hopefully with widespread testing, we will know when that peak passes.
If you have to catch this, odds are the later you catch it, the better you will do, all things considered, IF there is an ICU bed for you in the unlikely event you need it.