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The key word here is "for some". If nobody gets a symptom then it isn't a disease. If only a very few get a symptom then maybe we call it a disease and maybe we
by swayvil 5y ago
The key word here is "for some". If nobody gets a symptom then it isn't a disease. If only a very few get a symptom then maybe we call it a disease and maybe we call it something else.
A disease requires some minimum proportion of the infected to feel it. Otherwise it's just commensalism or something.
Therefore, as the general health shifts, so does what we call our relationship with that varmint.
- SketchySeaBeast 5y agoI'm still confused, because I don't know how that connects to your question "Could covid not actually be just a disease?", because it clearly is as it's affecting people. If we assume that the cold is a disease so is COVID, by the same criteria. Is the cold not just a disease? If so, what is just a disease?
- swayvil 5y agoIt's a pretty simple idea. I'm having doubts about this "confusion".
- SketchySeaBeast 5y agoFair enough. I think you're throwing a weird "disease" distinction and then moralizing angle into COVID which doesn't make any sense. We didn't just hit some sort of health critical mass for illness. COVID is its own beast and it's hurting a ton of people and implying it's people's fault for eating junk is bizarre.
- swayvil 5y agoThe moral trip is all yours.