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As a layman I have to ask: Isn't this what happens with "the flu" (our annual flu waves) every year? It infects us, we fight it back, it mutates, infects us ag
by just-juan-post 6y ago
As a layman I have to ask: Isn't this what happens with "the flu" (our annual flu waves) every year? It infects us, we fight it back, it mutates, infects us again, we fight it off again, and the cycle repeats.
Same thing happening here?
- thewarrior 6y agoYes but this is deadlier
- perl4ever 6y agoIf we all made a reasonable effort to isolate, even if not perfect, then it seems to me that the virus would be forced to evolve to spread more easily with fewer symptoms which is what we want. How well did "herd immunity" work in WWI, where they sent the sick to the crowded hospitals?
- neilwilson 6y agoIs it? It may be twice, possibly three times as deadly at the older end of the population, but it is nowhere near as deadly at the younger end - where flu is a much bigger killer. It certainly isn't ten times as deadly overall. Moving from blasé to hysterical helps nobody. We need to be rational.
- sroussey 6y agoThe mutation rates are magnitudes different.