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Just wait until it mutates and starts killing kids. Kids are currently the last to be vaccinated. I know this is morbid but this does not bode well but there

by sjg007 6y ago

Just wait until it mutates and starts killing kids. Kids are currently the last to be vaccinated. I know this is morbid but this does not bode well but there is precedent. Spanish flu first only killed the elderly and then on its return killed young adults and kids disproportionately. Now the Spanish flu was influenza and this is coronavirus but this specific coronavirus should not be underestimated. I’ve said this from the beginning and I hope I’m wrong.

ketamine__ 6y ago
> I’ve said this from the beginning Is that relevant and who are you?
- breitling 6y ago
  It's just a figure of speech
- hombre_fatal 6y ago
  It's just a low effort rhetorical device where the speaker hopes to boost their signal. Much like "I don't normally say this but."
jMyles 6y ago
I have found myself concerned about this as well (and thinking about what decision-making for parents must have been like in late summer when this characteristic started to become evident). Ask yourself: if you're that parent, do you wish that your kid had already been exposed and run a complete course of the virus prior to this mutation? It seems obvious that the answer is 'yes', and, at least to my way of thinking, is an indictment of the purely horizontal approach to pandemic control so far displayed by states.
capkutay 6y ago
There’s no evidence that it’s more deadly at this time. In the words of Derek Lowe... “Many infectious pathogens, in fact, gradually evolve versus a given animal host to be more infectious and less virulent over time. Remember, it’s not the job of a virus to make people deathly ill: it’s the job of a virus to make more virus.”
nradov 6y ago
Well OC43 has been around for over a century and never mutated to start killing kids. So why would this be virus do that? Your speculation seems uninformed.
- sjg007 6y ago
  There's speculation that an ancestor strain to OC43 was in fact the cause of the 1898 pandemicinstead of influenza. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_coronavirus_OC43 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_coronavirus_OC43

by sjg007 6y ago

ketamine__ 6y ago

> I’ve said this from the beginning Is that relevant and who are you?

breitling 6y ago
It's just a figure of speech
hombre_fatal 6y ago
It's just a low effort rhetorical device where the speaker hopes to boost their signal. Much like "I don't normally say this but."

jMyles 6y ago

I have found myself concerned about this as well (and thinking about what decision-making for parents must have been like in late summer when this characteristic started to become evident). Ask yourself: if you're that parent, do you wish that your kid had already been exposed and run a complete course of the virus prior to this mutation? It seems obvious that the answer is 'yes', and, at least to my way of thinking, is an indictment of the purely horizontal approach to pandemic control so far displayed by states.

capkutay 6y ago

There’s no evidence that it’s more deadly at this time. In the words of Derek Lowe... “Many infectious pathogens, in fact, gradually evolve versus a given animal host to be more infectious and less virulent over time. Remember, it’s not the job of a virus to make people deathly ill: it’s the job of a virus to make more virus.”

nradov 6y ago

Well OC43 has been around for over a century and never mutated to start killing kids. So why would this be virus do that? Your speculation seems uninformed.

sjg007 6y ago
There's speculation that an ancestor strain to OC43 was in fact the cause of the 1898 pandemicinstead of influenza. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_coronavirus_OC43 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_coronavirus_OC43