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		chippy on April 4, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Yet another novel I will no longer write There has been one study on the influenza virus that says that people who are asymptomatic are more social than normal. The simple hypotheses is that the virus wants the host to spread as much as possible.

acdha on April 5, 2020 [–]

That was a small evo-psych study (38 people) and it wasn’t a study of the flu but rather the vaccine so there are other possibilities. It’s certainly possible but I’d avoid giving it much weight without more data.

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