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Re:WHO says Covid-19 pandemic is 'one big wave', not seasonal by pier25 on Tuesday July 28, 2020 @01:17PM (#23978192)
> It wasn’t on westerners radars until February in any serious way.

I'm no scientist but that was the end of Winter and there were very few people with it at the time.

Isn't it possible that it is indeed seasonal and it's now in its "weak phase"?

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Re:WHO says Covid-19 pandemic is 'one big wave', not seasonal by covid2019 on Tuesday July 28, 2020 @01:19PM (#23978211)
How does that explain the spiking that occurred as soon as states re-opened?

Politicians are load balancing the healthcare system, not the infection rates.

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Re:WHO says Covid-19 pandemic is 'one big wave', not seasonal by pier25 on Tuesday July 28, 2020 @01:29PM (#23978360)
Well, precisely because the states re-opened and people got closer to each other.
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Re:WHO says Covid-19 pandemic is 'one big wave', not seasonal by covid2019 on Tuesday July 28, 2020 @01:33PM (#23978418)
The biology of the virus may not have a “weak phase” just because transmission rates went down. We load balanced transmission rates with distance.

That doesn’t mean the virus got weaker. Rates go up as soon as distance is removed? Doesn’t seem like the virus wants to slow down as a matter of its “real” physical properties

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