Quote (justhackitup @ Dec 16 2021 02:09pm)
Anyone else find it odd the CDC didn’t mention the term “variant” until way way later? It was in the words of the president of the United States of America, vax it or mask it. Once the public realized they weren’t dying in the streets, suddenly, variant.
Weird huh.
Quote (justhackitup @ Dec 16 2021 05:29pm)
Devils Advocate. Let’s say the CDC really has no idea mutations would happen.
A. Overpaid and underperforming
B. Arrogance and ignorance
C. Deliberate lies
Why oh why would you trust your life in this model? Why would you give up your rights? Why would you allow riots with no masks (protestors that steal, burn, kill, while protesting)?
It’s all a scam. Does some virus exist? Probably. Is this the right response? NOOOO!
They were monitoring mutations the entire length of the pandemic. The term variant didn't rise the public conciousness because no mutant strain replaced the original Covid strain until the Alpha variant started displacing OG Covid. Additionally this is the first major pandemic in the world of cheap and fast next-gen sequencing. Every pandemic in the past likely had similar effects with variants rising and falling but we had no real way to detect it.
Quote (EndlessSky @ Dec 16 2021 03:27pm)
How many people have died from Omnicorn so far?
You do realize the spanish flu eventually ended because the dominant variant became less lethal and now circulates annually as a strain of H1N1
This post was edited by Sioux on Dec 16 2021 07:35pm