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Encouraging why? A month from now a new vaccine-escaping variant could emerge from some squirrel in Haiti that's a billion times more transmissible than Omicro
by amildie 5y ago
Encouraging why?
A month from now a new vaccine-escaping variant could emerge from some squirrel in Haiti that's a billion times more transmissible than Omicron and a thousand times more lethal than Delta.
The fact that this particular variant isn't an absolute catastrophe doesn't mean that a new devastating variant isn't around the corner.
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- wussboy 5y agoBut that has never not been true in every time and in every place. Why get existential dread about it now?
- sk5t 5y agoClearly we should spend all our energy, always, worrying about the near-uncontrollable realms of bacterial and viral evolution.
- ianai 5y agoFirst death from omicron in US wasn’t vaccinated per breaking news just now.
- stjohnswarts 5y agoLots of people died this week from flu and the common cold as well, so let's not freak out just yet.
- bandana 5y agoI've heard that the Pangolin variant could be 10x more potent than the Haitian squirrel variant. Why is everyone still going out, lock us down now !