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Re:S.Africa says vaccines, prior infection help mildness of ... by heavyset_go on Monday December 20, 2021 @02:06AM (#29622199)
It's the earliest indicator of all COVID-related trends, and it's the variable the that others depend on.

Every new infection results in rolling the evolutionary dice a few hundred billion times, and is how we get diseases that evade our defenses, and new diseases in general.

Also, being hospitalized isn't the only bad thing about COVID.

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Re:S.Africa says vaccines, prior infection help mildness of ... by kkjjkgjjgg on Monday December 20, 2021 @02:26AM (#29622276)
"Every new infection results in rolling the evolutionary dice a few hundred billion times, and is how we get diseases that evade our defenses, and new diseases in general."

That frames it as if that was a new and scary thing and not something that has been going on for millions of years.

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