Scenario Z chugs on
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Icymi
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Scenario Z: Covid is never brought under control, mutates too much every season to be managed like the flu, and goes endemic with higher base fatality rate and is too costly to chase with vaccines. Joins the top-3 ranks of steady modern killers alongside heart disease and cancer.
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My irrational, unfounded fear has been the experts have already projected the inevitable variants and know this is incoming.
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Fuck, I had missed this. It was a good call. One of our three core scenarios is a more transmissible and vaccine evasive variant. We do posit MRNA vaccines allow fast reaction via boosters, but at a loss of years and lives. We kept our Z in reserve but may need to dust it off
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