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Originally Posted by Skybird
If you just let it run, ylu overflood hospitals, you erode the workforce available at any given time, and you increase the likelihood and speed by which WORSE mutations can and will pop up.
Your scenario is unaffordable. And careless against those being symptomtic, may it be in ICU, may it be with Long Covid.
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So, in other words, "two weeks to flatten the curve," was a lie. Either that or health infrastructure leaders are grossly incompetent. Every western nation has had over a year to ramp up staffing, logistics, and equipment acquisition.
Viruses do not mutate "worse." They mutate to advantage their ability to replicate. That is exactly what we see going on - increased transmissibility, no increase in pathogenicity. Which would kill more infected people more quickly, thus This virus will continue to mutate to try and keep itself able to infect and replicate. Ultimately, it reaches three point that it only results in cold symptoms - like *every* other coronavirus that wasn't artificially prevented from spreading. Like rhinoviruses and adenoviruses. Research indicates that those annoying rhinoviruses we're deadly eons ago.