It was kind of like a "birds are dinosaurs" moment in terms of putting things into perspective. Early on I thought covid was a cold that tried to rise above its station, but now I realize it's where colds come from to begin with.
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Nice brief article about trying to map the origin of "common cold" coronaviruses we all get onto past pandemicshttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7252012/ …
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Anyway, where my novel rhinoviruses at? You just going to let yourself get punked like this?
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Yeah, the common cold isn’t a virus; it’s a *strategy* (make the respiratory tract pump gallons of virus carrying fluids and don’t kill the host)https://twitter.com/urbanethology/status/1238834601444945920?s=21 …
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Not sure what you're trying to say? It's the same family of viruses, yes. But we don't actually know they all caused pandemics. We **do** know that public health measures work best, regardless. Letting kids get sick is still a bad idea right now? https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2021/08/how-we-live-coronavirus-forever/619783/ …pic.twitter.com/Yd8uWbn8qE
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I'm saying the evidence is suggestive that 'common cold' is the end state of coronavirus pandemics like the current one. I don't care one way or another about current public health measures or advice for kids.
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my stepdad said for years that "they can do X or Y (where X or Y is some wild scientific achievement), but they can't cure the common cold" anyway, those mRNA vaccines are pretty neat.
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There was a great thread by someone on cold vaccines here back in 2020. The upshot was that colds are the Whitman's Viral Sampler and there was no way to make it economically tenable to vaccinate.
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Worth remembering that although a large minority of common colds are caused by coronaviruses, most are not.
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Epidemiologists were paying attention. The rest of us ignored the warnings.
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What warnings? "Don't sleep on our virus labs in Wuhan!"
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