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I'm reading everything you're reading, and my takeaway is: it's simply too early to be sure. The best thing to do is roughly what's happening - take some sensib
by ivraatiems 5y ago
I'm reading everything you're reading, and my takeaway is: it's simply too early to be sure. The best thing to do is roughly what's happening - take some sensible precautions while we figure out what's going on.
My back-of-the-hand barely-estimated odds are something like:
50% chance it's similar to, a little more prevalent than Delta, with similar immune escape. A slightly worse version of the current problem.
25% chance it turns out to be way more dangerous than Delta for some reason (requires a new vaccine, more deadly, way way more infectious etc).
25% chance it ends up being no big deal/not worse than delta/less deadly/little to no immune escape
But this is based on how these things have seemed to shake out over the last two years, not any sure science. Don't rely on me.
- x86_64Ubuntu 5y agoBut we already know what's going on. The medical field cited Delta as a problem, and it was. With your numbers of 75% being equivalent or worse than Delta, that alone enough to spur action. And where are your odds coming from?
- ivraatiems 5y agoI'm making them up. It's speculation. But I also said I agreed with the precautions being taken, so what's the issue?