Re:Substantial undocumented infection facilitates rapid diss...
by perl4ever on Monday March 23, 2020 @08:53PM
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"You have a situation where X has no influence on reproduction, replication or transmission"
It is true that a basic law of reality/nature is that causes must precede effects, so in a sense, I think I agree your statement is technically correct regarding the exact cycle you describe.
But when talking about evolution in a population, the cycle happens a huge number of times. So "X" will influence all of the instances of replication that in fact happen after it. It would be silly to talk about evolution in a context of one and only one reproduction event.
I don't think we are debating anything that has to do with specialist knowledge of viruses.
It is true that a basic law of reality/nature is that causes must precede effects, so in a sense, I think I agree your statement is technically correct regarding the exact cycle you describe.
But when talking about evolution in a population, the cycle happens a huge number of times. So "X" will influence all of the instances of replication that in fact happen after it. It would be silly to talk about evolution in a context of one and only one reproduction event.
I don't think we are debating anything that has to do with specialist knowledge of viruses.