'It’s not gone. It’s changing. It’s killing': The COVID variants the WHO is watching closely.
#COVIDisNotOver @WHO @mvankerkhove @auscovid19
Full article here: https://euronews.com/next/2023/11/24/its-not-gone-its-changing-its-killing-the-covid-variants-who-is-watching-closely
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Yea its not gone, and never will be. We have to accept its here to stay and just put it in the same category as the flu at the point, just one of those diseases among many we might get. Doesnt mean you take it any less seriously, but we need to accept that diseases dont usually go away and this is in no way unusual in the sense that this too is here to stay and that could have never changed.
@freemo @DenisCOVIDinfoguy @auscovid19
I disagree that it's here to stay. These things often burn themselves out after a few years. They don't always - Aids for example - but they can - Black Death for example.
@britishtechguru @auscovid19 @freemo @DenisCOVIDinfoguy So far there’s nothing to indicate that SARSCOV2 is going to go away. Unfortunately. Its propensity to mutate to avoid immunity suggests the opposite.
Yersinia Pestis never went away. It was the conditions that helped it propagate that improved. Even then the multiple waves of the plague went well beyond a few years.
> So far there’s nothing to indicate that SARSCOV2 is going to go away.
Yup
> Unfortunately. Its propensity to mutate to avoid immunity suggests the opposite.
True that is a factor but actually not the main reason. There are two more important reasons:
1) The human immune system attenuates to the same strain over time. So even if there is no mutation you can get the same strain multiple times over relatively short periods (year or two)
2)A large portion of people who catch covid are contagious but completely aymptomatic. I myself have had it 7 times (verified) and only could tell I had it at all once
> Yersinia Pestis never went away. It was the conditions that helped it propagate that improved. Even then the multiple waves of the plague went well beyond a few years.
Not to mention damn near wiped out the bulk of civilization several times over in the process.
@freemo @auscandoc @auscovid19 @DenisCOVIDinfoguy
Perhaps these diseases are all appearing suddenly - SARS, MERS, AIDS, Covid-19 etc as a response to overpopulation?
Overpopulation certainly helps spread diseases much faster. No doubt there.
@freemo @auscandoc @auscovid19 @DenisCOVIDinfoguy
From what I heard, Aids is a variant of Green Monkey Virus and Aids itself can be traced back to samples from the 50s. It's just that it was only in the 80s that it took off and only in about 84 that it was identified.
But... if it originated with Green Monkey Virus then it's as stated due to encroachment on animal habitats and overpopulation by humans.
We are heading for a mass extinction whether we like it or not.