Quote (Goomshill @ Nov 27 2021 02:58am)
We really dont have data on this new variant yet. Africa is full of young healthy people, the west is full of old fat people. Covid was deadly in the latter and not in the former. Once it comes to America its going to be another wave, possibly a vaccine resistant one, possibly one that is harder to re-vaccinate people against if they are already vaccinated
A significant portion of the people susceptible are already dead.
This virus is more transmissible. Viruses tend to get less virulent over time because it helps them coexist with the host for longer and then ensure a wider spread.
There is an infinitesimal probability that this variant will ever matter.
And Africa is not healthy. They are about half as obese as us. And like 30% of Swaziland has HIV.