The Virus Changed. Now We Must ‘Get to Zero’ or Face Catastrophe

Re:The Virus Changed. Now We Must ‘Get to Zero’ or Face Cata... by __blockcipher__ on Sunday January 31, 2021 @04:11AM (#25977337)

Viruses generally change to be less deadly and more transmissible. The “new variant” is just more transmissible.

It doesn’t make sense to argue “oh what if this virus magically evolves to hurt children”. You need to propose a theoretical mechanism of action. Otherwise spend your time worrying about flu and tuberculosis which kill far more children than COVID-19.

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Re:The Virus Changed. Now We Must ‘Get to Zero’ or Face Cata... by croes on Sunday January 31, 2021 @03:45PM (#25982410)

And it infects children more easily.

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Re:The Virus Changed. Now We Must ‘Get to Zero’ or Face Cata... by __blockcipher__ on Sunday January 31, 2021 @06:36PM (#25983768)

What’s your point? As I said:

> over the long run the set of all COVID-19-naive individuals becomes dominated by the very young (infants/toddlers), who have essentially zero risk of COVID-19 mortality.

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Re:The Virus Changed. Now We Must ‘Get to Zero’ or Face Cata... by croes on Monday February 01, 2021 @01:37AM (#25986215)

BTW they generally become less deadly because the less deadly spread faster because they don't kill the host, but this virus has a rather long incubation period, so you can have both. Easy spread and higher death rate.

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Re:The Virus Changed. Now We Must ‘Get to Zero’ or Face Cata... by croes on Monday February 01, 2021 @12:49AM (#25985932)

"Babies under 1 year old and children with certain underlying conditions may be more likely to have severe illness from COVID-19." Zero risk?

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