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forgotmylogin

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14. Sadly, I think our only hope...

Reply to Raftergirl (Reply #8)

Sat Jan 1, 2022, 02:15 PM

Jan 2022

...is to wait it out and hope COVID mutates to a significantly less-lethal form so it's an endemic flu that we live with.

Natural selection would seem to curve toward the virus being capable of higher transmission levels (and thus ensuring its own survival) if it doesn't kill the host.

Hopefully.

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Omicron is nature's vaccine! [View all] Shermann Jan 2022 OP

Yeah, people are catching it again after being infected before Walleye Jan 2022 #1

Wacko thinking bucolic_frolic Jan 2022 #2

Interestingly, he may not be wrong Shermann Jan 2022 #5

When I first read that name, I thought it said, "Dr. Marty Malarky." GoCubsGo Jan 2022 #3

Infection causes reinfection and is yet more opportunity for adverse mutation (Nt) FreepFryer Jan 2022 #4

Don't know I would put it that way, but... Chakaconcarne Jan 2022 #6

So are polio, measles, smallpox, mumps, etc. Ms. Toad Jan 2022 #7

After being very pessimistic for a very long time Raftergirl Jan 2022 #8

Sadly, I think our only hope... forgotmylogin Jan 2022 #14

I think Omicron is a significantly less lethal variant. Raftergirl Jan 2022 #15

magical thinking indeed -- vaccines are made in a lab and cost billions to produce cadoman Jan 2022 #9

Very dangerous thinking. PufPuf23 Jan 2022 #10

Sure. And I guess Delta was a "vaccine" too, as were the original variants. gulliver Jan 2022 #11

Even though Omicron may on average be milder than other variants, since it so much more totodeinhere Jan 2022 #12

Yes, although the data so far from both SA and UK Raftergirl Jan 2022 #13

A highly contagious, but very mild virus could end the pandemic andym Jan 2022 #16

Just because omicron seems to be less deadly IzzaNuDay Jan 2022 #17

I have been thinking that myself if Omacron doc03 Jan 2022 #18

Endemic disease. Wait until some unvaccinated hunter brings us the Bambi Variant JCMach1 Jan 2022 #19