Ask HN: How worrying is the new Covid variant?

Re:Ask HN: How worrying is the new Covid variant? by DoreenMichele on Saturday November 27, 2021 @05:01AM (#29359004)

I'm a biohacker.

I have no idea how concerned you should be.

I've been staying out of such conversations. I have enough trouble getting taken seriously.

Biohackers aren't omniscient. This really sounds like you are hoping to hear from con artists and charlatans just to get some kind of reassurance.

I don't think that's a good thing to hope for, much less ask for.

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Re:Ask HN: How worrying is the new Covid variant? by News-Dog on Sunday November 28, 2021 @03:33AM (#29367216)

It's a crap-shoot, We and other infection able animals are mere in vevo 'petri dishes' for the RNA which is highly mutable.

'An infinite number of Monkeys, with an infinite number of typewriters', So it is a Chance and Probability game.

The hypothesis that 'as viruses mutate they become more infectious but less deadly',

and wildfires will burn themselves out, only work when there is limited fuel, i.e. small communities with limited travel,

hence the lock-down/lock-out option is prudent at this time.

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