Sarosh wrote on Jan 9
th, 2022 at 4:20pm:
israel is first in vaccinations and produces variants, is it correlated ? we will never know because science was bribed and became politics
Israel is likely better at detecting them, they’ve been pretty far ahead in that stuff.
NooneOfConsequence wrote on Jan 9
th, 2022 at 5:33pm:
As with Omicron, again I say”meh”.
Imagine if this much testing, data collection, money, and reporting was focused on the common cold… we’d be getting stories like this every week!
Covid is a little more serious than the common cold, so it’s a bit more concerning. Hearing of new variants is getting a bit old, but it’s not something I’d want to mess with. Even without risk of death, the prospect of losing sense of smell for any long period doesn’t sound too good.
Curious Aardvark wrote on Jan 10
th, 2022 at 8:28am:
But you'd never deep fry a car, probably not even at a Texas county fair
That sounds like a challenge.
I wouldn’t hold your breath for a doomsday variant. I have to explain to people that even though lethality is declining, that’s not a given. The optimal virulence doesn’t mean it will always decline. But a doomsday variant is probably much more unlikely.
Also, the only acceptable times to bring up nukes as an option are when
A. The place is overrun by zombies
B. Some balloons are accidentally detected by the sensors
C. The target in question is Australia, Florida, or Ohio