RE: It’s crap because it’s hand-waving, non-scientific gossip.
If the variant exists and spreads faster than its mother, how is it non-scientific to discuss it? It affects everyone. A thread devoted to discussing its implications is worth it.
“If the variant exists and spreads faster than its mother, how is it non-scientific to discuss it? It affects everyone. A thread devoted to discussing its implications is worth it.”
You show the data where it spreads faster?
Then show data that indicates “spreading faster” is better, worse or no different than any of the thousands of other variants that have existed throughout the entire epidemic.
These sensationalist propagandists exploit your scientific illiteracy in not knowing the dynamics of viral variability, nor the rigor which is needed to come to conclusions these popular and political publications, such as Vox, blithely extol as etched in stone.
It’s utter crap con man stuff.
It’s pseudoscience.
It is very similar to climate change pseudoscience.