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Even if it really was like that, there are still good reasons for not allowing that - if there is still a chance it can kill people, there would still be consid
by m4rtink 5y ago
Even if it really was like that, there are still good reasons for not allowing that - if there is still a chance it can kill people, there would still be considerable bodycount if it really is more transmissible and many people get infected at once (overloaded hospitals). Mild symphtoms also still don't say anything about possible long term damage that might only become aparent later. And lastly, infecting so many new hosts opens the possibility of creating a more deadly variants, just by pure chance, due to so much virus replication going on in the hosts.
- colordrops 5y ago> And lastly, infecting so many new hosts opens the possibility of creating a more deadly variants, just by pure chance, due to so much virus replication going on in the hosts. Isn't this true of the flu as well?
- m4rtink 5y agoI guess ? I wonder whats the magnitude of flu infections vs covid in absolute numbers. Also I guess not all viruses mutate in the same way?
- Gibbon1 5y agoThe flu can easily mutate via reassortment because it's genome is segmented and there is a huge reservoir or human and animal strains. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reassortment https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reassortment