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Yes, because the longer Covid hangs around, the faster virus fighting tech is going to improve. Even better. The combination of today's fast advancing technic
by Nevermark 5y ago
Yes, because the longer Covid hangs around, the faster virus fighting tech is going to improve.
Even better.
The combination of today's fast advancing technical knowledge, paired with the deadliness and globalness of Covid, relationships to HIV in terms of amplified risk, and the common cold and flu, has triggered a highly funded and increasingly organized war, waged with new weapons increasingly generalizable across viruses.
This war started with an unusual bang of many "small" battles won surprisingly quickly, which will maintain commitment and momentum needed for the war. Which given the world's inequalities will not be short.
Like the world entering the Holocene, our immune systems are entering into the era of routinely engineered support. Watchful preparedness, with engineering and distribution systems for resistance, mitigation and cures.
Eventually we will get to routine rapid detection, isolation and extinction. Perhaps even going so far as to eliminate threatening viruses in wildlife. Although that is far off.