Re:New Concerning Variant: B.1.1.529
by ricardobeat on Friday November 26, 2021 @05:58PM
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The existence of Covid won’t end, but the pandemic has to. Living with overloaded hospitals forever, or doubling/tripling our health systems capacity to deal with it permanently don’t sound like very good ideas.
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Re:New Concerning Variant: B.1.1.529
by paulryanrogers on Friday November 26, 2021 @07:15PM
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Endemic aerosolized variants could ultimately cull / mame everyone with a weakened immune response. The end game could be permanently higher overall mortality and reduced respiratory fitness in a significant part of the population.
If humans evolve to adapt then those adaptations may come at the cost of something else, given large enough time scales.