Classically, variants are less severe than the original because this is the best long term survival strategy for a virus rather than killing hosts. My guess is that we “manage” our way through this without a major disruption… except for those living in the more authoritarian states.
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1) Whether the variant is more transmissible than the current, prevalent Delta strain?
2) Does it cause more severe disease?
3) Will it render our immune defenses — from vaccines and prior infections — less effective (a phenomenon known as immune escape)?
[The above from today's NY Times]
I predict the answer to all three questions will be "yes."
Will we shut down? No. We will continue to march forward, navigating the minefield on advice of our public health experts.
Did not see that coming.
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After all, it will allow the Leftists to continue to try to place controls on the citizens, and it is starting to seem that control of the citizenry is the goal, and not control of the disease. "marching forward"...seems like you guys like playing soldier. I would prefer that we just move forward, in a non-martial way, and just focus on treating the ill and protecting the vulnerable, and stop restricting the healthy and non-vulnerable.
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Seems right
Yeah, yeah, someone said that, so I can't take credit. Cruz maybe?
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We toasted them at Thanksgiving Dinner, as we are so blessed to have President Biden and our public health experts guiding and protecting us.
Forever grateful.
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And still trust every word that come out of his mouth. He could call for full body condoms and these idiots would look like a scene from the Naked Gun.
To toast the guy who was pushing for funding of the covid virus research in Wuhan is shameful.
I wonder who else was toasted.
In honor of Fauci and the brave WHO keeping us safe, from Trump...
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...or should have been learned...from this pandemic (see link).
There are literally tens of thousands of very capable medical professionals working on this latest variant and collaborating..just as they have been doing for decades...let's hope for the best, but prepare for the worst...if that means immediate restrictions, so be it...hang in there.
Link: https://www.gavi.org/vaccineswork/how-do-you-stop-pandemic
And fire the truck drivers.