Re:Australia Covid outbreak: Delta variant cases rise among ...
by AndrewBissell on Friday July 16, 2021 @04:19PM
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> I feel like attacking a virus this aggressively worldwide with a vaccine was a mistake since it will make the virus more resilient and resistant and spark thousands of new variants or in another words speed up its evolution and possibly cause and make a super virus.
One of the things that made the second wave of Spanish flu so lethal was that the normal rules of viral transmission were upended by World War I. Ordinarily, the normal course of viral mutation is for the less lethal strain to be preferentially spread. Instead, soldiers in the trenches who became very ill were sent on trains to crowded hospitals, while those who developed mild cases stayed where they were. I don't want to say it's likely that mass vaccination might have a similar adverse effect, but it seems possible.
One of the things that made the second wave of Spanish flu so lethal was that the normal rules of viral transmission were upended by World War I. Ordinarily, the normal course of viral mutation is for the less lethal strain to be preferentially spread. Instead, soldiers in the trenches who became very ill were sent on trains to crowded hospitals, while those who developed mild cases stayed where they were. I don't want to say it's likely that mass vaccination might have a similar adverse effect, but it seems possible.