The virus also lacks long term planning and goal setting. It's incapable of thinking beyond right now. Otherwise, it would clearly want you alive so that it could mutate just enough to infect you again, and again, and again.
What's the time line on each of those?
This is wrong. We've been over this before, and it's one of the pieces of misinformation that virologists have been trying to correct this whole time. Their best guess is that the virulence of Omicron appears to be so much less because of the confounding factor of vaccination (edit to add for @DisneyCane... infection immunity). It is less virulent than Delta, but it is not presumed to be less virulent than the original Wuhan strain. Multiple Covid-19 VOCs were more virulent compared to the previous one. Omicron is an exception, but that does not make it the start of a trend.
What did i say....
I choose the optimistic experts. If the lower virulence of Omicron is solely due to vaccination then why was it less virulent in South Africa where the vaccination rate is/was relatively low?
The pain in your 401k will be here much sooner than you think.For those that think the status quo is a goal and will ignore long covid how about the country will be shrinking not growing?
Is this the path to a prosperous future?
Might slow down the crowds at WDW but in the long run it just might kill your 401k
Deaths Exceeded Births in a Record Number of States in 2020
In this data snapshot, author Kenneth Johnson reports that many more deaths, fewer births, and less immigration produced the United States’ smallest percentage population gain in at least 100 years.carsey.unh.edu
And that’s just it, there is no single path that viruses take. Time and again SAR-CoV-2 had done things in unique and unexpected ways and yet people continue to declare it will follow a certain path. Some of the longer impacts that we have seen from COVID have not aligned to severity which suggest we could still have a situation where the initial disease for most isn’t much but then something worse happens later, be it reduced fertility or blood clots or memory loss or whatever. I believe it was @hopemax who provided the information about life insurers seeing an increase in young adult and middle age deaths that are tied to things like cardiac events, not a bout of sever COVID.
Unfortunately, the other thing is probably going to be more of a direct and immediate threat to a prosperous future. High energy prices and the resulting inflationary effects are going to be the closer bear in the mirror. Which is probably the actual cause of the rapid shoving of Covid aside. We won't fight a war on two fronts (I'm not implying actual war for the US, just that fighting over masks or other mitigation is no longer something we can afford with the backdrop of greater economic stress.) The health challenges of several million people will just be the cherry on top on the pain for those several million people.For those that think the status quo is a goal and will ignore long covid how about the country will be shrinking not growing?
Is this the path to a prosperous future?
Might slow down the crowds at WDW but in the long run it just might kill your 401k
Deaths Exceeded Births in a Record Number of States in 2020
In this data snapshot, author Kenneth Johnson reports that many more deaths, fewer births, and less immigration produced the United States’ smallest percentage population gain in at least 100 years.
Yes, it can be. But... again unless this is an earth-changing virus, and I see no reason to believe it, I have no reason to believe it will keep getting worse and worse.
Sorry. I edited my post to include "infection immunity." A less immunological naïve population by either means, confounds the evaluation of intrinsic severity.
Bingo.
Californias mask mandate removal is only for the vaccinated.
now I like a lot of what you say, but this is really one of the more odd takes on the negatives of covid. A lot of green people will be like - yes covid sucks, but less population? Not bad.....For those that think the status quo is a goal and will ignore long covid how about the country will be shrinking not growing?
Is this the path to a prosperous future?
Might slow down the crowds at WDW but in the long run it just might kill your 401k
Deaths Exceeded Births in a Record Number of States in 2020
In this data snapshot, author Kenneth Johnson reports that many more deaths, fewer births, and less immigration produced the United States’ smallest percentage population gain in at least 100 years.
On paper. We saw last year what that means in practice. No masks.
yup
