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> We have removed most of natural selection from our evolution. Ho-ho! So nobody died from COVID-19, because we have defeated disease? There's a new outbreak
by denton-scratch 4y ago
> We have removed most of natural selection from our evolution.
Ho-ho! So nobody died from COVID-19, because we have defeated disease?
There's a new outbreak of Ebola in West Africa. QE2 just died of "old age". New variants of COVID-19 Omicron are circulating in EU, and killing people vaccinated against the old variants. I've been reading of new polio outbreaks. But it's great that we've defeated natural selection; clearly the Brave New World has arrived.
- samatman 4y agoThe number of people of childbearing age who died of COVID is a rounding error, which is true of everything else you mentioned as well. Did you think the Queen was due to have a couple more heirs before her untimely passing?
- rbanffy 4y agoI said most, not all. We'll eventually grow resistance to COVID or Ebola provided enough exposure, the same way we developed resistance against the flu (that, for instance, South American indigenous populations didn't when the Spanish first arrived), as we'll weed out those with propensity not to vaccinate their kids, because their kids may not be able to reproduce. But you won't die because you are not strong enough to hunt a mammoth.