What the media and politicians are doing with their response to WuFlu is evil. In a just world death-penalty levels of punishment would be levied against journalists and politicians who stoked this fear, and permanent exile would be in the cards for CEOs who mandated vaccines as a condition for reopening their offices.
The time where this was a conservative but reasonable response to a virus passed at the beginning of May when we had solid figures on case fatality rates by age, knew the infection fatality rate models were wrong, and started to get antibody data that told us there was a huge base of unreported asymptomatic cases that was building herd immunity.
huge base of unreported asymptomatic cases that was building herd immunity.
Herd immunity, and immunity in general, for a coronavirus is a nigh-hopeless cause. You expect people to form a socialized immunity to a virus that mutates in every population, with multiple know strains, and a viral structure that is already generally resistant to human and animal immune systems?
The virus isn't as deadly to most healthy persons as was originally believed, but that doesn't mean it isn't still harmful nor that it cannot suddenly become deadly through mutation.
You expect people to form a socialized immunity to a virus that mutates in every population, with multiple know strains, and a viral structure that is already generally resistant to human and animal immune systems?
I expect people to get immunity from this one variant of the coronavirus and some mutations with enough similarity to it. I don't expect them to suddenly be immune from all coronaviruses.
but that doesn't mean it isn't still harmful nor that it cannot suddenly become deadly through mutation.
The harm the virus does pales in comparison to the harm we are doing in reacting to it.. And the idea that a virus can mutate to a form more deadly is true of any virus; I'm not sure what you're trying to say here.
What the media and politicians are doing with their response to WuFlu is evil. In a just world death-penalty levels of punishment would be levied against journalists and politicians who stoked this fear, and permanent exile would be in the cards for CEOs who mandated vaccines as a condition for reopening their offices.
The time where this was a conservative but reasonable response to a virus passed at the beginning of May when we had solid figures on case fatality rates by age, knew the infection fatality rate models were wrong, and started to get antibody data that told us there was a huge base of unreported asymptomatic cases that was building herd immunity.
Herd immunity, and immunity in general, for a coronavirus is a nigh-hopeless cause. You expect people to form a socialized immunity to a virus that mutates in every population, with multiple know strains, and a viral structure that is already generally resistant to human and animal immune systems?
The virus isn't as deadly to most healthy persons as was originally believed, but that doesn't mean it isn't still harmful nor that it cannot suddenly become deadly through mutation.
I expect people to get immunity from this one variant of the coronavirus and some mutations with enough similarity to it. I don't expect them to suddenly be immune from all coronaviruses.
The harm the virus does pales in comparison to the harm we are doing in reacting to it.. And the idea that a virus can mutate to a form more deadly is true of any virus; I'm not sure what you're trying to say here.