dude who has been obsessively following the pandemic for the past two years but got distracted over new year: hey I wonder how the pandemic is going
Since death rates don’t seem to be spiking very seriously, is this… basically a good thing? Is the whole country getting a minor infection and developing natural immunity, and the virus stabilizing into a stable equilibrium like the common cold virus (utterly endemic, every single man woman and child infected multiple times a year, but also largely harmless)?
the common cold viruses, and the (four?) other endemic coronaviruses that closely resemble their effects, yeah.
also all the kids shrugging it off today should be less vulnerable to it as adults.
…. except that isn’t how this virus works…
People are becoming worse with each reinfection.
are they though? why doesn’t that happen with colds and flus and the other endemic coronaviruses?
My working hypothesis is this is what the introduction of the other coronaviruses to the human ecosystem was like and after 200-1400 years of coevolving with it, the genetically vulnerable being felled before reproduction and the genetically defended left in stronger relative positions to support heirs, it’ll have about the same place
