Tuesday, December 28, 2021
What comes next
It seems like people all over are getting COVID-- way beyond the numbers that are being reported. It's probably because so many people are finding out via at-home tests, with results that send them into quarantine, but don't make it into any database.
It does appear that the variant driving all of this, Omicron, is less severe in its impact, at least for those who are vaccinated.
There are really three ways this can go:
1) My dad's trailing-edge philosophy tells him that this is the end game for COVID-- basically, the virus committing suicide by mildly infection a majority of people and giving them some level o immunity from future infections.
2) That this turns out to be a milder but still very lethal variant to some people, It will run its course over time, but never create the kind of immunity that my dad predicts.
3) This variant infect so many people that it inevitable leads to the emergence of another, more lethal variant-- the worst-case scenario to the whole pandemic.
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The biggest problem is the spread of the social component of this pandemic. The ill-results are enhanced by false information shared on-line and in other ways that contradict reality, resulting in increased death and long-term disability.
The social infection is making the virus infection significantly more damaging (fatality and disability) than would be the case if common sense and expert advice were followed.
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The social infection is making the virus infection significantly more damaging (fatality and disability) than would be the case if common sense and expert advice were followed.
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