One consequence of not social distancing

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Coronavirus is evolving. Whether it gets deadlier or not may depend on us | Coronavirus | The Guardian

Basically, if a disease causing virus can hop easily from host to host, a more virulent and deadly strain can thrive (it can pass person to person before it kills the host). If there is social distancing and other measures, a more deadly mutation will die out before it can find new hosts and less severe strains will evolve that can pass asymptomatically.

It seems the death rate in Sweden is much higher than neighbours and I guess they are spreading a stronger strain of virus.

[AtW]

Lack of social distancing and other measures (masks) == higher viral load when one gets it.

Sars2 is already one of the most virulent virii out there

[NotAllThere]

Coronavirus is evolving. Whether it gets deadlier or not may depend on us | Coronavirus | The Guardian

Basically, if a disease causing virus can hop easily from host to host, a more virulent and deadly strain can thrive (it can pass person to person before it kills the host). If there is social distancing and other measures, a more deadly mutation will die out before it can find new hosts and less severe strains will evolve that can pass asymptomatically.

It seems the death rate in Sweden is much higher than neighbours and I guess they are spreading a stronger strain of virus.

If it's too deadly it dies out as well. Corpses don't cough. If it makes people too sick, they don't go out and spread it.

[fullyautomatix]

If it's too deadly it dies out as well. Corpses don't cough. If it makes people too sick, they don't go out and spread it.

However you can engineer a virus to just affect a tiny proportion of the population, create a panic situation, justify a country wide vaccine administration and provide economic stimulus that enriches the rich buddies who donated to your political party.

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If it's too deadly it dies out as well. Corpses don't cough. If it makes people too sick, they don't go out and spread it.

But if you have no mask wearing and no rules, sick people will go out, cough in packed shops and in packed restaurants and the deadly strain will pass quickly to others.

In a country with strict rules, sick people do not interact with many other people and not in a way with frequent and fast transmission.

[AtW]

Today, 14:10
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[SueEllen]

However you can engineer a virus to just affect a tiny proportion of the population, create a panic situation, justify a country wide vaccine administration and provide economic stimulus that enriches the rich buddies who donated to your political party.

It is specifically targeting old white men from wealthy countries and killing them off.


How old are you fullyautomatix? Over 50? Over 60?

[AtW]

Better question is how many cores in his laptop...