RE: All they are hyperventilating about is how contagious it is.
But it is contagious. Much more so than the original where we have developed vaccines for.
The question is -— how severe are the symptoms for those who are infected compared to the original?
So the question is, how dangerous is this? Do we need to do more shutdowns for this new strain of virus?
And overall, is the new normal that we never get back to normal life, because there will always be some new strain of virus discovered?
These are serious questions, for which some political leaders take a zero tolerance approach, meaning we have to all stay home and shut everything down because there is a virus going around. The good news about Covid 19 is that the vast majority who get it will not die from it. But that fact is lost in some of the hype and news reporting about the whole situation.
Not so fast.
The “70% more infectious” thing came from the same bozos at Imperial College London who predicted 2 million deaths due to COVID back in the spring. Neil Ferguson has been more consistently wrong, in an alarmist way, than even Anthony Fauci. That takes true talent.
And I have this question: what does it mean to say that something is 70% more than something else? Do they mean 170%? If so, why couch it in mathematically ambiguous terminology?
I can’t remember the source (I think I saw it on Glen Reynold’s “Instapundit”), that linked to a piece in which they got Ferguson to admit that he had pulled the number out of thin air.
Don’t trust content from ICL.
There are signs that the vaccines we have may be effective.
The symptoms may be worse, however, because of the 8 mutations to the spikes. It seems to me, not a medical person, that if it can get into the cells more easily, more cells will be affected faster, which will result in a more severe illness.
Not a medical person, but have been sifting thru medical stuff for years due to endless problems.
As a general rule, the more contagious, the less dangerous.
This seems to serve the collective species purpose of survival. To survive, it either spreads easily or causes severe problems and death. Either way seems to help the overall species survive. If it doesn’t spread fast enough, it lives by killing the host, eating up As much as it can with the single host.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_human_disease_case_fatality_rates
Take note of how common any of the diseases are compared to kill rate.