🎓 Doc Freemo 🇳🇱 @freemo@qoto.org

@bonifartius
Its a bit more complicated than that. For starters immunity doesnt identify all parts of a virus. It only identifies parts of a virus that have a binding site on it. As far as i know thats just the spike protien for covid but i may be wrong.

As for immunity leading to reducing the attack surface, thats very much a myth that keeps circulating and its more complex than that. Studies show that when you introduce vaccines, or natural immunity, but do not approach herd immunity that you increase the chances of variants evolving. Therefore immunity is only effective at stoping the virus effectively id herd immunity can be reached first. So the two factors at play is the mutation rate of the virus pitted against the time it takes to approach herd immunity. Coronaviruses tend to evolve relatively quickly and as such its unlikely we could reach a herd immunity before it triggers a new strain.

Finally while you are right the new strains are not going to necessarily evolve towards being more deadly, they also arent neceseraly going to evolve towards being more silent. More often we see it evolve to be more contagious earlier in the infection leaving it to be as deadly as it "wants" to be later in the infection. Many viruses kill or disable you, or show symptoms at all, only after the most contagious part of their life cycle.
@zleap @Pat @trinsec

@zleap
Im still convinced that when people wear respirators and masks in the general public it increases the spread of the disease significantly. But sadly i cant confirm that with data either way.

Washing hands i agree
@Pat @trinsec

@Pat

It is almost certainly in the wild. Its hard to verify but coronaviruses in general tend to spread asymptomatically enough that they often slip through the cracks. So we can assume its in the wild, that doesnt mean it will become prevalent mind you.

@zleap @trinsec

@zleap

Honestly I feel like its too early to really say. But based on weak information im kinda thinking what pat said, it **might** be less lethal and thus might benefit the unvaxed. But we need so much more data.

@Pat @trinsec

@NEETzsche

LOL you are so butt hurt by being deemed a waste of time you had to come here to have your tantrum. If I knew you'd be this entertaining i wouldnt have ignored you just to watch your meltdown

@trinsec

@Pat
Yea te decline is likely a number of factors. Less contact, some immunity, etc. But its not a huge dip

@lucifer
I feel the power flowing through my veins alreafy

@skells

FYI in your originaal post you linked to the P on qoto, I assume you mean the one on FSE.

@notresz @p

@skells also once you start getting into harder to solder stuff, like small SMD, or really large connectors like ground planes, you might want to consider the different tips for the soldering iron which make a huge difference. For now the tips it comes with are fine though, just keep in mind you have that option.

@skells The soldering iron is sooooo nice, you wont regret it. ITs probably the most important thing to have nice since soldering is hard enough in the best of conditions when you are new. Next purchase should be a cheap o-scope, but you wont need that until you start to try to understand circuits better, which obviously is secondary to building circuits.

Feel free to hit meup with questions as you progress, it can be a tough subject for many to get their heads around at first.

@skells I was actually revisiting them thinking I might re-write them geared towards a journal article and see if i cant get some future version of this published in a journal, perhaps the IEEE. So yea, figured I'd reshare them while they are on my mind. Glad you are getting something out of it.

@skells

Thanks for the mention. Me and P are actually best friends, we just play enemies on the fediverse (not really lol)

@notresz @p

@xyfdi Beelzebub is the god of science :)