I need to stop looking at this shit, it doesn’t help :doomer:
Somewhat relatedly, what this tweet’s is suggesting is sobering. From the replies:
The image says that infection waves will come faster and faster as time proceeds, that variants will multiply faster and faster and eventually this leads to entropy (utter chaos). In your real life situation it will mean constant infection with multiple variants of SARS-COV-2.
I’m gonna have a drink, I think.
Lmfao were so boned if true.
I still think it's going to become less lethal and mellow out to the same rate of infection/death as the flu, but I don't think that'll happen soon. We'll have enough covid spikes to probably get hospitals to finally collapse after workers have just finally had enough
There is no reason to believe it will become less deadly. Because the infectious period is so long before the “you die” period, there’s basically no pressure pushing it to be more or less deadly. The reason infectious diseases tend to become less deadly is because if a virus kills its host before it can spread, that virus doesn’t spread. If you kill your host slowly it doesn’t matter.
Take rabies for example. It’s been around for thousands of years, and it still kills almost 100% of people it infects.
I also think we forget in a post-vaccination world just how bad diseases used to be. Smallpox didn’t become like the flu, it killed a fuck ton of people until we figured out vaccines and decided we’d had enough of it and put in tons of effort into eradicating it.
I'd say it's inevitable that it eventually becomes like the flu based on historical accounts of other pandemics. To think otherwise would be to assume this new coronavirus has some particularly extraordinary properties when it comes to new mutations and such, and it doesn't seem like it does, at least I'm not familiar with such theories.
You're right that it could last for a while longer but I'm kinda hoping this year is the last really serious one.