UK scientists call for debate on allowing ‘big wave of infection’

[ladymuck]

I suspect it will be more like within 5 years.

And dont underesimtate common colds:

"a cold can also have more severe symptoms in the very young and the very old. Older people are more likely to develop a more serious infection compared with adults or older children.

Another group of people who are more severely affected by infection with cold-causing viruses are people with an existing lung condition. They can include people with asthma, cystic fibrosis or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Infection with a virus that causes inflammation of the airways can make breathing much harder"

You forgot men and their terrible man flu sufferings. I just don't know how the poor lambs cope.

[AtW]

You forgot men and their terrible man flu sufferings. I just don't know how the poor lambs cope.

That's God for the invention of Life Insurance!

[Scoobos]

You forgot men and their terrible man flu sufferings. I just don't know how the poor lambs cope.

Now now, every debate has limits. Don't play down manflu , it's a very serious and very real condition. I don't go around mocking childbirth.

[SueEllen]

That's God for the invention of Life Insurance!

We need to kill off as many old white males as possible particularly in developed countries. Some of them are just so damn expensive to keep living....

[DonaldJTrump]

We need to kill off as many old white males as possible particularly in developed countries. Some of them are just so damn expensive to keep living....

If I said something similar for young black males to reduce crime waves there would be uproar

[AtW]

"LONDON — British government scientists are increasingly finding the coronavirus variant first detected in Britain to be linked to a higher risk of death than other versions of the virus, a devastating trend that highlights the serious risks and considerable uncertainties of this new phase of the pandemic."

Coronavirus Live News and Updates - The New York Times

But it should be ok in 100 years, maybe!

[NotAllThere]

...what would stop SARS-2 from evolving into more lethal version? ...

My point is that Covid is far deadlier than the flu, and spreads better (even before new variants).

There's a trade off between lethality and contagiousness. Corpses don't spread disease. It's been good at spreading because we have no immunity at all. Our bodies are fighting off viruses all the time. Mostly we don't notice.

You forgot men and their terrible man flu sufferings. I just don't know how the poor lambs cope.

It's not man 'flu. It's man cold. And it's very serious. More painful than childbirth. You may scoff, but you'll never experience a man cold.

[ladymuck]

Corpses do spread disease, just not the one we're currently talking about

There's a reason all cultures put the dead somewhere separate from the living, at least until all the squishy bits have gone.

[BrilloPad]

We need to kill off as many old white males as possible particularly in developed countries. Some of them are just so damn expensive to keep living....

Can we just kill those with an orange tinge?

[BrilloPad]

Now now, every debate has limits. Don't play down manflu , it's a very serious and very real condition. I don't go around mocking childbirth.

Neither do I. When MrsBP got pregnant she put a beach ball where the sun doesn't shine and inflated it just to make me have empathy...