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Re:AstraZeneca Scientist Says Delta Variant Makes Herd Immun... by ren_engineer on Thursday August 12, 2021 @10:26PM (#28164638)
just a consequence of globalization, even 20 years ago the world was much less connected and things didn't spread as fast. Doesn't help that the entire planet wasted at least a month trying to contain it when rumors of something emerged in at least December 2019. Corona was being downplayed until basically the 1st week of March 2020

seems like Covid is going to be endemic like the regular flu where each year they have to try and guess which strain to make vaccines for

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Re:AstraZeneca Scientist Says Delta Variant Makes Herd Immun... by dmix on Thursday August 12, 2021 @10:52PM (#28164851)
Just like many times in history as technology advances, such as how we couldn't stop mice/rats from spreading into other countries with ships - well before the crossing of the Atlantic/Pacific oceans reconnecting the Americas to the rest of the world.

Now there could be some small population in bats in a rural area in Asia which had some virus with a random mutation and it will no longer be isolated to those areas.

We've ultimately benefited greatly from breaking down these transportation and economic barriers and there's no going back without a serious regression in a ton of other areas (unless you want to live in a 'hermit' kingdom like NK). So it's a new reality we have to learn to adapt too.

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Re:AstraZeneca Scientist Says Delta Variant Makes Herd Immun... by nradov on Thursday August 12, 2021 @11:03PM (#28164921)
Globalization only accelerates the spread a little. Evidence indicates that the previous major coronavirus pandemic occurred with HCoV-OC43. Apparently it started in 1889 and spread worldwide within a couple years. Even prior to widespread globalization people did travel and it only takes one carrier to spread the disease.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7252012/

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