How much worse is each covid mutation going to get?

I'll gladly patronize anyone who wants to take my money in exchange for my protection.

The mandates are going to kill faster than the mutations. We can deal with the mutations.

What we cannot deal with is abject authoritarianism and a papers please society that's forming in wake of a more contagious flu. Sucks for people with comorbidities, for the rest of us it's just another flu.

I will revolt if biden tries another lockdown. Our economy here is already being crippled by the landlord moratorium and unemployment. Not to mention nation wide inflation that is squarely bidens fault.

Rising gas prices arent helping either. Thanks Biden for policies that reduce our domestic oil production making gas 3$+.

It's all a huge unknown, but I've read articles where (apparently) well-qualified virologists say that they believe the virus has such a small amount of RNA that can mutate that it's extremely unlikely that it's going to turn into a disease with Black Death levels of mortality that can be transmitted even more easily than the currently circulating versions.

What's going on with Covid isn't weird (and it has nothing whatsoever to do with the vaccine). It's just a novel virus that has a justifiably high profile in an age of easy global travel and an all-pervasive global media.

All viruses walk a line between transmissibility and lethality. If a virus isn't easily passed on to new hosts, it dies out. If a virus is so rapidly deadly that it doesn't have the chance to spread, then it will die out too. On the other hand, a virus that's easily transmissible but allows its hosts to survive is much more likely to spread very widely. Viruses have no intelligence whatsoever, but their only "reason" for existence is to produce as many copies of itself as it can, so there's evolutionary pressure on viruses to infect new hosts easily, make them ill enough that they spread the virus around, but not actually kill them.

There is another coronavirus in circulation that now causes the common cold, but it's believed that it might have been responsible for a pandemic in the late 1800s which killed more than a million people worldwide. Several influenza viruses are also known to have become much less lethal with the passage of time. This is typically what happens with viruses.

And by the way, it's not true that everyone who came down with the Black Death (which was almost certainly a form of bubonic plague) died. It was a truly ghastly disease that caused huge numbers of deaths and caused enormous social disruption, but the survival rate of bubonic plague is greater than 50%, and it's clear from contemporary records that not everyone came down with the Black Death, and some of those who did survived.

The whole thing is bizarre anyways. It’s all way overblown in my opinion. It does not matter if something is more contagious. The vast majority of people who get the virus survive. I’m not saying we should be careless, but don’t let this stuff scare you.

It sucks. Its normal for a virus to mutate, the swine flu is still mutating and are worse some years than others for the unvaccinated peeps, but it was never as deadly as covid.
I think its important to remember that the media likes to turn things into a circus. You should be careful of course but don't go around fearing death all the time, just be mindful of your hygiene and keeping an adequate distance to people you don't see often, especially those who aren't vaccinated.

The real money will be made when they start selling treatments for all the damage they caused.

First off- VARIANT, not varient.

And, yes, sadly it's only going to get worse... thank the fucking antivaxxers for not even fucking trying to contribute to eradication of the virus. THANK YOU AND FUCK YOU, MOTHER FUCKERS!

New covid variant gives you super strength for 15 minutes on Wednesdays

Vaccines have started to fail too. Heard news of couple of fully vaccinated people dying from the delta plus variant.

That's the problem with the vaccines. It's causing the virus to mutate.

covid is a virus and it mutate every year just like the flu which is also a virus. covid will never go away, and if did not know it was said to be a pandemic we would just thought it was a bad flu season. wake up people

I'm not sure how many variants past "L" they have gotten. But they are all named in English alphabetic order.

A (Alpha) was the 1st one.

B,C, were less virulent than Alfa.

D (Delta) is more severe than A

E,F,G,H, I, J, K, were all less severe than A

L (Lambda) is between A and D.

I know that they have identified M, N, and more. Just not sure how many.

Most of the variants are likely to be less of a problem; but, a worse one could come up.

As bad as the media says it will

Funny how even here there seems to be only two categories, vaccinated or unvaccinated. There is another category those with natural immunity.

There are over 200 million people world wide and close to 40 million in the USA that have had covid 19 and although there have been a few, the numbers of reinfected are much much lower than even the break through cases of people who have been vaccinated.

Turns out Sweden or the people who believed in herd immunity may have had the correct way to fight this.

If it had been allowed to run it's course most people would have caught covid A by now, and yes the death from covid A may have been higher but would it have been higher than covid abcdefghi-z over the next five years.

Your Dr Fouci even said, that although all viruses mutate vaccines force it to mutate faster and drive how they mutate to find away around the vaccine. Requiring constant reevaluating of the vaccine and new or updating the vaccines.

You don't hear about this third category of people because it doesn't fit the narrative to scare and sensationalize everyone. There is no money in it, to just let it run its course.

Good luck finding anybody who has something positive to say about big pharma. They’re absolutely exploiting this for a buck, that’s why they don’t want to waive their patents and that’s why they’re only selling it to the richest countries. You think they care if the virus spreads unchecked in poor countries, increasing the chance of dangerous mutations like the delta variant that emerged in India? That just means boo$ter $hot$ might be necessary eventually.

You may be overestimating how much they have to do with the vaccine itself, though. They don’t develop it directly and they have no say in the testing or approval of it. They just help mass produce it once they’re approved and then they distribute it with their name on it.

That's right, but we must not be naive either. We got to find the perfect balance of both optimism and keeping our head out of the sand so we can get through this as carefully, wisely, and with creating as little pain as possible among ourselves and others.

I'm realizing now that I may have been looking at things too darkly. I think.

Do you agree that we may eventually have a varient as deadly as the black plague?