>In this article he clarified that generally viruses that spread more are less severe (as killing the host makes it tougher to spread). It takes far less than

>In this article he clarified that generally viruses that spread more are less severe (as killing the host makes it tougher to spread). It takes far less than death to reduce spread. People who feel sick stay home from work (not guaranteed, but with enough frequency that it matters), don't go out to eat, don't wander around and go to parties, and so on. Any time they're sitting home, they've hurt the chances that their variant is the winning-est variant. Again with the caveat about dormancy periods for Covid.