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it is not impossible to make informed intelligent decisions regarding your behavior, or the situations you choose to become involved in. there are behavioral a
by rolph 5y ago
it is not impossible to make informed intelligent decisions regarding your behavior, or the situations you choose to become involved in. there are behavioral alternatives that will minimise your risk and others risk, these alternatives are not for everyone, the psychological challenge of social isolation is not bourne well by many people, however it was the best we had until vaccine production was sufficient to provide population scale administration.
please believe me, this is not fear mongering when i say that the >potential< risk posed if this virus generates omega strain variation [hypothetical doomsday strain] would be large and unmanagable.
this can happen if, long road taken variations accumulate over time as a result of unchecked transmission and incubation.
the short road is co-circulation of variants recombining genetic elements as a result of concurrent multivariant infection.
...and apology accepted, i see you are very passionate about your decision
- nradov 5y agoThat's just unscientific fear mongering nonsense. Humans are social creatures. For most people social isolation is more harmful than the virus. The human race has already survived previous coronavirus pandemics and they didn't cause doomsday. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7252012/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7252012/
- rolph 5y agoyou are wrong this is not fear mongering, this is a high potential of increased danger with each successive modification, please explain what bottleneck eliminated the majority of hominoid species but left us here.
- nradov 5y agoOur ancestors eliminated the majority of hominid species, leaving us here. There is no scientific evidence that any early hominid species was wiped out by a viral pandemic.
- rolph 5y agothere is plenty of genetic evidence linking neanderthal genetic features to outcome of disease and genetic infirmity, as well as outcome of covid infection, primarily to do with interferon production and signaling, as well as receptor domains, these are heteroallelic as well, so strong neanderthal heritage with respect to population at large may provide a protective allele, or a predispositional allele. https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/12/neanderthal-gene-found-many-people-may-open-cells-coronavirus-and-increase-covid-19 https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/12/neanderthal-gene-fou... https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.12.11.422139v1 https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.12.11.422139v1 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2818-3 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2818-3 https://www.news-medical.net/news/20201215/Neanderthal-gene-variant-increases-risk-of-severe-COVID-19.aspx https://www.news-medical.net/news/20201215/Neanderthal-gene-... https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMe2025501 https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMe2025501 https://www.pnas.org/content/118/9/e2026309118 https://www.pnas.org/content/118/9/e2026309118 https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.12.11.422139v1 https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.12.11.422139v1