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I see a lot of presumptions that Covid will "become like a common cold," Could do, yeah. I'm no evolutionary biologist, but I guess that for this to happen, it
by EliRivers 5y ago
I see a lot of presumptions that Covid will "become like a common cold,"
Could do, yeah. I'm no evolutionary biologist, but I guess that for this to happen, it needs to mutate in various directions, and the strains to feel selection pressure to become non-lethal to humans. Which I guess means that a lot of people need to die of more lethal strains faster than they spread it, and that way the surviving strains will become the dominant strains while the people-killing strains wipe themselves out by killing their hosts quickly.
This does not feel like a great solution; using human deaths as a way to select for the less lethal variants. Feels like that involves a lot of humans dying, which people have a strong bias against.