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To: Owen
A couple of months later, the next surge will start.

You think this thing will become cyclical? Something to think about if you're older than 65, especially during the winter if this becomes a seasonal illness. We had to deal with smallpox for a long time before finally wiping it out. Makes you wonder if this is similar.

22 posted on 01/26/2022 7:31:40 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican

No. Not really cyclical. There are many variables that would disrupt calendar periodicity.

I just think the virus will escape mitigation. I also think the weather is a major factor, and all summers or winters are not the same. Variants are another obvious mechanism.

Mankind should have been wiped out by smallpox. It killed big %, but one of its subtle features was it sterilized male survivors. Pustules blocked sperm ducts. Easily corrected now, but not a few thousand years ago. We were lucky.


44 posted on 01/26/2022 9:47:06 PM PST by Owen
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