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It meant (to me) that there are several 'pockets' of this happening simultaneously, it's not some local 'strain' or 'outbreak'. I thought it was a crucial thing
by roel_v 7y ago
It meant (to me) that there are several 'pockets' of this happening simultaneously, it's not some local 'strain' or 'outbreak'. I thought it was a crucial thing to add, for nuance. Not sure why you're so agitated over this.
- mantap 7y agoWith the advent of air travel most of these geographically distant places are less than 24 hours away.
- roel_v 7y ago... That can still make them distant? Is Australia less 'distant' from Europe now that it takes 24 hours instead of 6 weeks to get there? In some senses, yes, but not in the sense that the GP used 'distant' (i.e., as a objective word for 'not adjacent').
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- dtornabene 7y agoand then it loses all meaning, because a pathogen that can travels within people who travel on planes is a pathogen unconstrained by geography. It was a very odd, and frankly, telling turn of phrase.
- feanaro 7y agoI think it's because the poster understood it as saying they were geographically distant "from us", rather than that they are geographically distant from each other.
- tim58 7y agoroot comment here. For the record I intended to use the term to imply that they are geographically distant from each other and the mutation is probably not from single parent.