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Another possibility is that Africans have better immunity due to, uhm, natural selection? The human body has its own mechanism in defense which is more sophisti
by csomar 4y ago
Another possibility is that Africans have better immunity due to, uhm, natural selection? The human body has its own mechanism in defense which is more sophisticated than any of medicines out there. Natural selection is also how we came out to be. I think it was foolish to think that we can do better than a hundred-million year of a refined process.
- upsidesinclude 4y agoExcept African Americans had far worse immunity
- SideburnsOfDoom 4y agoThe above comments are several dumb takes. Also, reports are not the same as actual outcomes. The buck stops with excess mortality. In my visits to Africa since the Pandemic started, they are taking COVID quite seriously, with lots of measures against it. And not ignoring it at all (1). Ironically for your assumptions, this may be a result of cultural selection: this isn't their first infectious disease to deal with as a public health issue in living memory. Not to say that there's no COVID there, people are still getting it, people that I know there have had it, varying number of times with varying severity. 1) YMMV, Africa is vast, I only visited one corner of it. Blanket statements about "Africa" are false somewhere.
- 41amxn41 4y ago[flagged]