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> we cooked them up When you say “we”, who do you mean exactly? How did they cook them? Can you explain why you believe the pandemic is not over?
by eric_cc 4y ago
> we cooked them up
When you say “we”, who do you mean exactly? How did they cook them?
Can you explain why you believe the pandemic is not over?
- qbasic_forever 4y ago> When you say “we”, who do you mean exactly? How did they cook them? The entire population of the western world. Every time COVID-19 infects a person and replicates it has the chance to mutate or introduce errors. If those errors in replication increase the fitness of the virus it will evolve to become a more powerful variant (i.e. gain of function). By continuing to allow hundreds of thousands of new cases and infections to occur daily we are increasing the chance of variants evolving. The _only_ way to stop variants is to stop transmission, period. > Can you explain why you believe the pandemic is not over? We are still averaging over 100k new cases a day in the US. And that's with almost all of the population using rapid tests that aren't counted in that measurement.
- Closi 4y agoAh yes, is this the old "let's lock down the planet forever" solution?