CNN aren't even lying about it
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In my limited understanding of virology, viral mutations are usually less dangerous than their predecessors. The main goal of the virus to be to survive and multiply, not kill off its hosts.
If it wants to scare me into "better" pandemic behavior, then it's going to have to make sick for more than 48 hours to start with and start killing off people that are young and healthy. 80+ year olds that need outside care to survive are generally already dying. Sure, it's a shame that a virus has to escalate it, but it's not going to scare someone who isn't even halfway there. I've seen a post on Comraddit about cases and deaths and there's a guy there that's been counting underlying conditions every day. Most days it's 90% of the deaths in that report. The leftists in there don't care though, because every single death is "totally preventable" if we'd all just only go out when really necessary and wear panties on our face every time we go outside. Just think, all those explorers looking for the secret to immortality all those years, and all they had to do was wear a dirty napkin on their face and quit exploring.
The problem with looking at the normal path of viral mutation is that humanity isn't using its normal virus management behavior.
Normally, people who get seriously sick get relatively isolated, so more serious mutations have little opportunity to spread, while people who suffer few if any symptoms continue to live as normal, allowing less serious mutations to spread widely. This is what ended the Ebola outbreak in central Africa a few years ago.
However, if everyone isolates regardless of symptoms, the deadliness of the virus has little to no impact on its ability to spread, so only its infectivity will be affected. We are guiding the virus to remain deadly and become highly infective.
The only worse management of viral evolution was done during World War One, when young men who suffered serious symptoms of the Flu in the trenches would be pulled back from the line, and those who suffered minor symptoms would stay on the line to be thrown to the meat grinder. It actively selected for more infective, more deadly variants, that were able to cause deadly symptoms in young adults.
Ugh. You're right.