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buboard
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A (possible) solution to Covid-19
> If it was killing 50-60% of people infected then yes the selection pressure would be there
it isnt killing, but it's isolating them, preventing its spread
notahacker
on April 10, 2020
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That's already baked in to human responses to suspected COVID-19 though, and a chance mutation to a less lethal strain would be unlikely to change human responses to an outbreak in a way which benefited the virus' ability to spread.
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i assume we re looking for asymptomatic people, they won't have quarantined themselves
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it isnt killing, but it's isolating them, preventing its spread