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[–]noshore4me 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (4 children)

Add people with darker skin tones and the current COVID variant's ability to evade the first vaccines.

[–]LordoftheFlies 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

On the subject of Covid and how it keeps mutating and splitting off into all of these new variants so quickly, does anyone else half suspect that this is the work of a lab rather than nature? Or is it just me drifting off into tinfoil hat country?

[–]Herpa_Derpa_Island 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

I think it's pretty standard behavior that a coronavirus will mutate at the rate COVID has mutated. I don't think it's unlikely by any means that COVID came from a lab -- in fact I expect that as part of our regular psyop regimen, we are meant to suspect and flip shit about the possibility it came from a lab -- but I don't think the adaptive behavior of the virus in itself really correlates to the likelihood that it did come from a lab.

of course if the virus was specifically mutating into apocalyptic strains that were terrifying and justified everyone flipping the fuck out, that would probably point to the likelihood the virus came from a lab, since coronaviruses generally don't do that. However in my view this is largely a concoction of the media and the strains themselves have never been especially worrisome to begin with.

[–]Insider 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

The China variant was very likely planted. It didn't match the variant in North America and there's numerous lines of evidence, when added together, looks like it was pre-planned.

However in my view this is largely a concoction of the media and the strains themselves have never been especially worrisome to begin with.

The high r0 of the virus is what made it dangerous, not the mortality rate. A lot of the severe cases have also been pretty bad, severe pneumonia damaging your lungs, myocarditis if severe enough could lead to heart failure, cytokine storms, organ failure, and ppl just inexplicably dropping dead.

[–]Herpa_Derpa_Island 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

I'm aware of these things. Personally, I worked at a nursing home for two years all throughout COVID -- after seeing uncountable numbers of residents in their 80s and 90s laughing off their COVID infections, literally mocking us for following protocols despite practically all of them having preexisting conditions that were rather severe, my model has little choice but to assume a psychogenic / voodoo element as the most likely explanation for the atypical severity and deaths among the young and healthy. Not to mention, of course, that I actually watched the motherfuckers casting the spell