re: #29 (((Archangel1)))

Every case an opportunity, and thanks to the GOP, it keeps getting more and more opportunities.

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the strange thing is that there is no evolutionary imperative for covid to become deadlier. it just “wants” to be transmissable and so the versions that are successful are the most transmissable. The problem is that in some cases, it’s deadly, and in more than some cases, it has long-term negative effects on the body. It’s in kind of a weird place. We all get colds and most of us survive them, but you get over the cold and move on. With covid, though, the virus can get what it needs from you—easy transmissability—and then leave your body pretty much wrecked, possibly permanently. That in some ways makes it way more dangerous than Ebola. At least with Ebola, you can mostly take reasonable precautions and not die. With covid, you can take reasonable precautions, still get infected with it, more than likely not have any long-term negative outcome from it, but still have a concerning risk of dying or, more likely, needing a lifetime of kidney dialysis. It’s like it’s found a sweet spot for being an absolute bitch of an illness.