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It is most likely pretty close to the final strain, viral mutations are optimizing for high transmission and low severity (to not kill the host and maximize inf
by drexlspivey 5y ago
It is most likely pretty close to the final strain, viral mutations are optimizing for high transmission and low severity (to not kill the host and maximize infections) and this one is pretty close to the global maximum.
- sjg007 5y agoWhy do people parrot this nonsense?
- engmgrmgr 5y agopeople are easily influenced by others who they admire, even if they have no idea what they’re talking about. athletes, politicians, investors, artists, etc.
- engmgrmgr 5y agoEvolution isn’t programmed, it’s a function of survival. If there’s a highly infectious virus with a huge lead time to develop deadly symptoms, that’s more than enough to spread “optimally”
- heavyset_go 5y ago> viral mutations are optimizing for high transmission and low severity (to not kill the host and maximize infections The selection pressure that sometimes selects for weaker strains is large amounts of viral hosts dying, causing the stronger strains to literally die out in the corpses they create. People aren't dying in droves because of COVID. There is little evolutionary pressure to select for weaker variants of the virus.