I'm no epidemiologist nor a virologist so this might be a crazy idea. If differences in IFR is due to some strains of the coronavirus being milder than others, maybe we should allow those milder strains to spread in order to help the virus evolve in a more benevolent direction?
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Replying to @RealYeyoZa
Viruses already tend to evolve to be less deadly to their hosts, since killing their host doesn't increase their fitness as much as having their hosts continue living to infect more people. So whether we help it along or not, it should get less deadly.
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Replying to @SwipeWright @RealYeyoZa
That only works if the virus kills too quickly. This ain’t that.
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Replying to @CoriolisMoon @RealYeyoZa
A strain that keeps their host out and about sneezing and coughing will likely see more descendants than a strain that comes on faster and quickly incapacitates their hosts. It's a matter of more or less, not a binary "too quickly" and "not quickly enough."
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You're not describing a less deadly version of the virus; you're describing selective pressure for more coughing and reproduction fast enough to be coughed out quickly.
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