Thoughts on coronavirus...
Pretty hilarious that in naming the omicron variant the WHO skipped the Greek letter "Xi" and said it was because its "a common last name". The last letter was called Mu which is also a common Chinese surname but for some odd reason they had no problem with it. Almost as blatant as them randomly blaming Taiwan for no reason.
Also I was reading this article about a potential transition from viewing covid as a pandemic to viewing it an an endemic. Back in June covid actually had lower hospitalizations and deaths than a bad flu season, basically the base covid and early variants had become as manageable as something we already consider endemic, despite vaccination rate only being 50% at the time(U.S. data). Delta has driven up cases since then, but the end result of this whole process seems inevitable. Singapore has already announced that it will shift its covid strategy from putting its resources into tracking case counts to instead putting its resources simply into treating anyone hospitalized with severe illness. At this point it should be apparent that this is the only realistic endgame. https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/hea ... ndemic-end
But now the question is how long will variants delay the process? Generally in virology viruses like any other lifeform have the primary goal of survival. Its not beneficial from an evolutionary perspective to become more deadly, or you end up like the MERS corona virus which basically had no chance to spread because it killed people too much and too quickly. We dont have much data on omicron yet, but hopefully it will have evolved to be the first variant to gain an evolutionary advantage over other variants by being less deadly. I found an article by a doc claiming it will take 2-3 years but who knows really.
Also I was reading this article about a potential transition from viewing covid as a pandemic to viewing it an an endemic. Back in June covid actually had lower hospitalizations and deaths than a bad flu season, basically the base covid and early variants had become as manageable as something we already consider endemic, despite vaccination rate only being 50% at the time(U.S. data). Delta has driven up cases since then, but the end result of this whole process seems inevitable. Singapore has already announced that it will shift its covid strategy from putting its resources into tracking case counts to instead putting its resources simply into treating anyone hospitalized with severe illness. At this point it should be apparent that this is the only realistic endgame. https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/hea ... ndemic-end
But now the question is how long will variants delay the process? Generally in virology viruses like any other lifeform have the primary goal of survival. Its not beneficial from an evolutionary perspective to become more deadly, or you end up like the MERS corona virus which basically had no chance to spread because it killed people too much and too quickly. We dont have much data on omicron yet, but hopefully it will have evolved to be the first variant to gain an evolutionary advantage over other variants by being less deadly. I found an article by a doc claiming it will take 2-3 years but who knows really.
Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla Accepts The World Jewish Congress Theodor Herzl Award Presented to Him by WJC President Ronald S Lauder
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