COVID is most contagious in the first 48 hours, roughly half of which is asymptomatic. Other than that time frame, it faces no disadvantage in killing it’s host. One would expect a longer time asymptomatic-and-contagious, followed by death as ideal for a virus. More people living who are immune means fewer interactions with susceptible hosts.
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Also worth mentioning that it is not usually the virus directly that kills the host, but the host’s efforts to evict the virus. By that point, infectivity is a small fraction of what it was, and the virus has pretty much gotten all that can be gotten from the host.
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As i said, there is more to the story, and research is ongoing, but not with the urgency of decade past. Now it’s more of a curiosity than a life-and-death thing, but it is still not fully explained.
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We just can’t learn…sigh.
We’re having a spike here in ME and I thought it likely due to Easter and Passover gatherings. Looked it up (in general, not for our state) and found these.
April 27, 2020:
April 14, 2021:
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It’s okay, god will protect us.
How about this: You must have a vaccine passport to go to your mega-maga-money-worshipping “church”.
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The emails accuse Luna of being part of a “vaccine passport” scheme - even though attendees won’t have to show proof of vaccination, only evidence of a recent negative Covid-19 test.
Death cult.
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I was looking around for a political cartoon riffing on the whole, “Christ is risen!” theme, but subbing in COVID-19 cases for Christ, and 2 weeks in for the 3 days, but didn’t find any. Am mildly surprised no one did that, but maybe it would be deemed too offensive.
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Woke cancel culture strikes again.
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Follow up on this: the day after, I was running a little bit hot (maybe 1.5 degrees on average) and had a sore arm, but nowhere near as sore as from the flu vaccine last winter. The Mr. had a sore arm but nothing else. We both made a point of using the arm in question throughout the day.
Today, can’t even tell anything in the arm, back to normal temp.
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So, my arm became extremely sore (from shoulder to elbow) the night of the shot, and then I started aching, with the ache moving about, now in my shoulder, now my hip, now my hamstring: not particularly bad, just enough that I couldn’t sleep. So yesterday i was tired, but only from that. So far, apart from a sore arm, nothing for Madam Mrs the Ratel. I’m surprised, everyone at work has been down for one day, most of the people I know IRL (whatever that means now).
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In news that will surprise no one here:
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I am under the impression most of the people discussing viruses “getting weaker” have some misconceptions about how an immune response works, and what gradual answers exist.
The 1918 influenza pandemic, for example, became endemic. It is still with us. As SARS-CoV-2 will, most likely. It won’t be as deadly, because most people at some point will have had either a vaccination or contact with the virus. But it doesn’t really need to change for this. It will change, but there is no selective pressure needed and very likely none present for SARS-CoV-2 to become “weaker”.
In many cases, “weaker” viruses already are endemic, so a certain cross-reactivity in regard to certain epitopes exists. There are first hints that even with the current pandemic, this could be the case. This even could explain asymptomatic cases and mild cases.
However, generally speaking, we are all immuno-naïve, which is why this bloody virus is spreading like wildfire.
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The mention of a babysitter gave me a flashback to horrible nanny interview scenes in movies and on TV. I guess vaccine credentials will be high up on the list of questions for that job in the future!
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