Chat about Novel Coronavirus - 2019-nCoV - COVID-19

Yeah - exciting/hopeful stuff.

@Squaredisk - I suspect it'll be going to/collected by specific people to start (NHS workers in particular).

I've wondered though how this would be the case as seen it said around and couldn't work it out.
Say I've had coronavirus and know I can't get it, surely heading out and about will still spread it around if I open the door to the local off licence which had it on, and then pick up some pringles but decide I don't want them so put them back.
Alternatively I head in to the office with all of the other people who are cleared, but then I get the tube back with the NHS staff who might not have had it and touch my hand on the pole, and it still spreads.
If the rest of my house hasn't had it I'd need to stay in too right, or risk bringing it back in on clothes?
Surely people will need to remain indoors anyways otherwise loads of people will just go out and say they've tested as having had it? Or the people who haven't had it will start to resent those outside, rush out to try and get it and then the flattened curve shoots up again?

Not really. You can still transfer the virus on your skin so there will still need to be social distancing measures and hand washing to protect the vulnerable.

It will help a bit - people who've had it can be far more useful in their communities.

I'd be concerned if it was available for all to buy. (The Guardian article says it will be, but with only 3.5million kits they should prioritise who gets it). Lots of people testing and finding they've had it and going back to normal levels of travel/socialising would be a bad thing for the vulnerable.

True enough but won't immune people going out and about empower idiots who are bored of the lockdown to come out, propagating the virus all over again?

Immune people will have to wear badges or something so the police know they're allowed out