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AthensVol2007 said:
That dude is clearly very obese which we know is the most common/cross-cutting underlying condition with this virus. As someone else posted before, the media, doctors, politicians and everyone in general have failed to harp on this enough and use it as a rallying cry for us to get healthier as a society. Instead of encouraging exercise, healthier eating habits and Vitamin D consumption via getting off our asses and going outside, we instead shut down gyms, parks, trails, tennis courts etc. and pushed an already obese society to fast-food/takeout consumption via closing sit-down restaurants and fear of going to grocery stores. The “packed on the Covid-19” has become the new “freshman 15” joke. I was already in a transition of trying to get healthier in the few months leading up to Covid and took it up a notch once obesity became the common theme (even though I wouldn’t have classified myself as obese).
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Hey remember when the First Lady tried to make school lunches healthier? What was the reaction from the right on that?
 
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Don’t get me wrong, I’m not someone who buys into the fear mongering over these new variants, but I do wonder if the Chinese engineered the virus to get more intense as it mutates.
 
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Matt2496 said:
Don’t get me wrong, I’m not someone who buys into the fear mongering over these new variants, but I do wonder if the Chinese engineered the virus to get more intense as it mutates.
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Natural evolutionary pressure would favor viruses that are more transmissible with less severe infections. Those that aren't very transmissible get weeded out by the horny bunnies of the virus world, like the delta. The increased severity of the delta may be related to the viral load infected people shed. The viral load is likely what makes it more transmissible. So this is just nature doing its thang.
 
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Matt2496 said:
Don’t get me wrong, I’m not someone who buys into the fear mongering over these new variants, but I do wonder if the Chinese engineered the virus to get more intense as it mutates.
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Not even that. The world deserves to know what happened.
 
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evillawyer said:
Natural evolutionary pressure would favor viruses that are more transmissible with less severe infections. Those that aren't very transmissible get weeded out by the horny bunnies of the virus world, like the delta. The increased severity of the delta may be related to the viral load infected people shed. The viral load is likely what makes it more transmissible. So this is just nature doing its thang.
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Where have you seen "increased severity"?
 
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#101,613
evillawyer said:
Natural evolutionary pressure would favor viruses that are more transmissible with less severe infections. Those that aren't very transmissible get weeded out by the horny bunnies of the virus world, like the delta. The increased severity of the delta may be related to the viral load infected people shed. The viral load is likely what makes it more transmissible. So this is just nature doing its thang.
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Pardon us for not relying on paralegals for a medical opinion on virology
 
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evillawyer said:
Natural evolutionary pressure would favor viruses that are more transmissible with less severe infections. Those that aren't very transmissible get weeded out by the horny bunnies of the virus world, like the delta. The increased severity of the delta may be related to the viral load infected people shed. The viral load is likely what makes it more transmissible. So this is just nature doing its thang.
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they also tend to weaker as the mutate - nature doing it's thang
 
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volinbham said:
they also tend to weaker as the mutate - nature doing it's thang
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They do tend to get weaker. But my point is that what likely makes the delta variant more transmissible is the viral load that is shed. A side effect of that is that it makes people sicker. What is being selected for is a big RO factor. The virus doesn't kill its host quick enough for there to be substantial pressure to evolve into a less severe strain.
 
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evillawyer said:
They do tend to get weaker. But my point is that what likely makes the delta variant more transmissible is the viral load that is shed. A side effect of that is that it makes people sicker. What is being selected for is a big RO factor. The virus doesn't kill its host quick enough for there to be substantial pressure to evolve into a less severe strain.
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Again, where is this "sicker" data?
 
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evillawyer said:
They do tend to get weaker. But my point is that what likely makes the delta variant more transmissible is the viral load that is shed. A side effect of that is that it makes people sicker. What is being selected for is a big RO factor. The virus doesn't kill its host quick enough for there to be substantial pressure to evolve into a less severe strain.
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we aren't seeing that it makes people sicker
 
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I should have clarified: I wonder if the Chinese engineered the virus to become more contagious over time, not more intense. Intense isn’t the right word.
 
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Matt2496 said:
I should have clarified: I wonder if the Chinese engineered the virus to become more contagious over time, not more intense. Intense isn’t the right word.
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As explained, normal evolutionary pressure will do that. It doesn't need to be engineered.
 
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