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That's not true. The pandemic ended as Omicron became the dominant strain, which was by some measures 90% less fatal than Delta. It's selective breeding; becau
by n2d4 1y ago
That's not true. The pandemic ended as Omicron became the dominant strain, which was by some measures 90% less fatal than Delta.
It's selective breeding; because we became careful about recognizing symptoms, any severe strain would cause the infected to isolate and hence not infect others. Therefore, Omicron was often symptomless, and COVID-19 was no longer deemed as much of a threat.
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- agoose77 1y agoI don't disagree with the general vibe here, but a few points: - It's hard to compare Omicron vs delta because of the number of confounding variables - population heterogeneity, vaccine + infection induced immunity, etc. - Severe strains with latency periods are invulnerable to symptom recognition. I don't think the asymptomatic period for the COVID variants varied as much in the lower bound as it did the upper bound. The point being -- behavioural changes are much more likely to be general caution (i.e. limiting contacts, spacing social events in time, etc.) than responsive (I feel unwell).