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Serious question, how could it disappear? It seems like as long as there are people close enough to infect, it will infect them. There are cases in warm environ
by Touche 6y ago
Serious question, how could it disappear? It seems like as long as there are people close enough to infect, it will infect them. There are cases in warm environments. What am I missing?
- joe_maley 6y ago>What am I missing? delusion
- standardUser 6y agoAccepting that we know still very little about this pandemic and how it will play out is the only perspective that is not delusional.
- joe_maley 6y agoThat was my point: it is delusional to believe that the virus will "completely disappear in a few months". User "Touche" asked what he is missing to be convinced that the virus will disappear: he is missing delusion.
- ianhawes 6y agoPrevious pandemics (most notably 1918 Spanish flu) have “disappeared” in the sense that they had either exhausted the pool of hosts and had no natural reservoir with which to fall back on or they mutated to become less deadly or less symptomatic.
- hesk 6y agoThe Spanish flu strain (H1N1) circulated as the common flu until 1957 when it was replaced by Asian flu in 1957 (H2N2). However, it reappeared briefly as the Russian flu in 1977.
- dragontamer 6y agoAnd then reappeared as Swine flu in 2009.
- erfgh 6y agoHow does mutating eradicate the non-mutated individuals?
- whatshisface 6y agoIn the Plauge Inc videogame, you can upgrade your virus globally by unlocking mutations. I think that might be where the popular misconception about mutations instantly weakening the virus on a global scale come from. In real life that can happen, but only in situations where it sits around in the population for years, so that it has had several "go-rounds" to sieve the best genotypes from the worst.
- jansan 6y agoMy personal theory is that lethal mutations or the ones that cause severe symptoms get detected and isolated where possible, while the mutations that cause only mild or no symptoms can continue spreading silently without anyone noticing. If both create the same immunity, the non lethal mutations will win. If this theory holds, testing only if a person is showing symptoms would be the right thing to do. Filter the dangerous mutations, let the other ones spread.
- fspeech 6y agoA mutated virus that spreads faster gives immunity to the hosts it infects from the ones that spread slower. The hope is that the more transmissible strain is also less lethal.
- Touche 6y agoNot in a few months.