Bloggers don’t like to bring bad news unless it is to scare the crap out of you. Just putting out the truth when it brings people down is not good for keeping readers. Well, I’m not a blogger, so I apologize in advance for the tone.

I’ve been saying this all along, but it looks like things aren’t going to return to normal for probably another 10-12 months, at the earliest. An immunization is most likely going to take that long and even Dr. Fauci is starting to publicly say so. They’ve also found the first significant mutation of the virus in India. This mutation effects the spike proteins on the virus that are being studied for the immunization. So it is possible that this will slow things down even more. We’ll see.

However, I do think there will be a lot of steps taken to slowly re-open the economy back up. Several other countries have already started this (even Wuhan China). I think most businesses will be able to open by mid-June, but it will probably require people to wear masks and keep 6′ apart. Restaurants may be able to do this if people are allowed to remove their masks to eat. Buffets will probably also have to change to a server or cafeteria model (where you tell the server what you want and they bring it to you or slop it on your plate). I think people that can work from home will be highly encouraged to do so.

This does involve some risk. But the whole reason for this “stay at home” situation was to “flatten the curve”, not to prevent all deaths (we’ve never done that for the flu virus and a lot of people die from that each year). Something like what I suggest above has a very high likelihood of keeping the number of new cases well within range that our medical system can keep up. New treatments coming later in the year will also help far more people survive (already at about 96% and many additional people appear never to get it at all; even if exposed). There is a lot of promising treatment research. Stronger steps will certainly have to be taken to protect the elderly and those with preexisting conditions. Elder care homes will probably continue to restrict visitors in some fashion, but the residents will probably be able to meet you outside if protected. All of this may vary from state-to-state / country-to-country. We are approaching the apex (the peak), but the new infections will continue for months.

The future is bright and we can be very thankful that this virus wasn’t worse than what is was (and it certainly could have been. There is one in Vietnam now that kills over 50% of the people that are infected. But currently it doesn’t spread person to person, only animal to person, so it is very slow to spread). But we need to do what we can build our immune systems. The longer we push off getting the virus, the better our odds are of surviving it, and possibly even having a symptom free infection!

I’ve continued to update the COVID-19 “Improving Your Odds” page and will continue to do so. I’ve added new ways to help build the immune system as well as a couple natural (adjuvant) treatment options. All research based. As new medical treatments become available I will add those as well. I highly recommend you take steps to improve your immune system, today. It takes time to build a very strong immune system, but you can see improvements in as little as one week! And the sooner you start the sooner you can turn things around!

“Analysis of the mutation dynamicsofSARS-CoV-2reveals the spread history and emergence of1RBD mutant with lowerACE2binding affinity” (9 April 2020) — https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.09.034942v1.full.pdf