[ExI] covid or cold?

[William Flynn Wallace]

How much data is enough data?  That omicron is fairly harmless, that is.
Can't be too careful?  Of course you can, and many people will dispute the
timing.  Anyway, since the first strain of the virus is still killing
people (I assume), what's wrong with being careful?  I do agree that
lockdowns and closures are too much, and maybe always have been.  bill w

On Fri, Dec 24, 2021 at 1:34 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <
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> >…What little I know:  viruses that kill their hosts are, regarding
> evolution, not very successful.  So they mutate - it's as if they know that
> being too toxic is not a good strategy for proliferating.   bill w
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> It was a breakthrough in a way billw.  Covid originated in China, but
> information is not free in China, so important data was lost.  It
> proliferated quickly in the USA (we yanks travel a lot (and are generally
> flabby)) but in the area of medical records, information isn’t free in the
> USA so important information was lost.
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> Omicron originated in South Africa, where they are good at collecting (and
> not hiding) data.  Result: it looks to me like omicron is pretty much
> equivalent to a mild flu, as our politicians scramble to convince us that
> we are going to die if we don’t do exactly as they demand.
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