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you forget that we've had deadly variants of the virus early on and the transmission rate of that was very high.

You guys like to take one factor and explode that into the only truth.

Like pretending the novel coronavirus is just a flu, or just the common cold.

NOPE! And our bodies had no natural defences, it's been very much a lottery who would survive those early forms of the virus.

Lockdowns were entirely necessary so don't pretend otherwise.

If you have a contagion factor of R4 or R6 that's extremely high but eve R2 is high. So even with a low mortality rate consistent with the flu, if everyone gets it, the overall mortality is way higher. It caused chaos in hospitals in Italy, France, the US, England.

You refuse to get this. It's been a NOVEL coronavirus. NEW.

Now the mutations are getting less deadly. OK. But that happened with the 1918-19 influenza virus.
And I'm talking about mutations here. Obviously the influenza virus has now settled down and we may just need annual flu shots for that.

But Covid19 may indeed mutate into a more dangerous form before it settles. This is why vaccinations are crucial. But also it's a complex situation because now the virus is becoming embedded, it's not new to many.

From the article.

"It might be, from a human's perspective, a worse virus than BA.1 and might be able to transmit better and cause worse disease," Daniel Rhoads, MD, section head of microbiology at the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio, told CNN. He reviewed the Japanese study but was not involved in it.Another scientist who reviewed the study but was not involved in the research noted that human immune systems are evolving along with the COVID variants.

"One of the caveats that we have to think about, as we get new variants that might seem more dangerous, is the fact that there's two sides to the story," Deborah Fuller, PhD, a virologist at the University of Washington School of Medicine, told CNN. “Our immune system is evolving as well. And so that's pushing back on things.”