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bogfiton Apr 23, 2021 8:03pm
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OT: Humanity is in a race with evolution.
OT: Humanity is in a race with evolution. The enormous number of covid victims in India scares the phiss out of me. Imagine the incredible number of replications and the natural occurrence of variants due to viral mutation. The next pandemic may be far worse and we have proven incapable of globally stopping this one. The consequences for global trade and national employment should a more lethal, more contagious variant begin spreading in the developing world are truly frightening; and appears to be something no one wants to consider.
Pandemics always end when the population becomes small enough to hinder transmission - well then it goes away. Herd immunity only works within a herd. You bring in another individual from a different population with a variant that is resistant to the herd antibodies, and it can start all over again. And resistant to antibodies the virus will for certain become, if both a high degree of replication and rapid transmission continue to be present.
Have a nice weekend.
b.