I keep having an urge to try to reason with the coronavirus, like sit it down and patiently explain that killing people is just gonna be worse for you and me, if we want a win-win scenario here you should really tame it down a bit so you can spread faster without people caring
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It will probably calm down if it sticks around long enough, it's just that it came from a different kind of animal and hasn't got to know us yet.
Disclaimer: not a virologist
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Charles Eisenstein suggests one approach to seeing the world is as a series of stories. He suggests asking the story what it wants. Maybe you could try that with #coronavirus
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A fantasy world there this kind of intervention is possible, and "wizards" are just the ones who are good at negotiating with foreign intelligences, sounds kind of fun.
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No! You will teach it to fork into both variants, and we will have to deal with them concurrently!
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That's how I play plague inc. really banal then rachet up the lethality once I've spread to Madagascar.
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Someone had this discussion with Syphilis back in the 15th century, perhaps bacteria are easier to reason with?
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_o
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And also avoid hospitalizing more than they can handle. Be a pest, not a pestilence.
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Gotta become common, get people out of work for a few days and then let them get back to the grind.