Our choices: 1. Let even more lethal, vaccine-evading Covid variants run unchecked, 4 times per year, indefinitely. 2. Shut down the economy 4 times a year, indefinitely. 3. Scale FAST manufacture of mRNA vaccine boosters as new variants appear. Correct is 3. We’re doing 2.
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Replying to @ESYudkowsky
Existing vaccines will likely reduce the lethality of many generations of variants, which may still infect people and create their own immunity for future variants. In addition, likely to evolve to be less lethal. Scenario 1 doesn't seem very likely.
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Replying to @ArthurB
Current variants don’t seem to be evolving lesser lethality, quite the reverse. Do you still expect that to change? When Covid-19 started I had some hope that a less lethal, more contagious variant would spread and inoculate everyone, but when that didn’t happen, I updated.
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contagiousness and severity both scale with a single factor, the number of virions. evolution is bumping this up by orders of magnitude, and it won’t be attenuated much until it is much much more lethal. let’s not wait…
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