Great post except for your last line: please don't promote the notion that this is "normal everyday flu." It's not. It has a far higher R0, and it started as being able to attach to human lungs much better. It has mutated, and probably continues to. Most mutations are harmful to the organism mutating, and other evolutionary pressures would also make this virus less lethal as it mutates.
I doubt anyone knows what we're dealing with at this point. Fortunately it's a lot less problematic than we thought at first. That's a very good thing. This is still not "normal everyday flu." Too bad they won't let us have the medicine proven to be most effective, and more effective than the most effective vaccine ever made, for anything. (Polio vaccine takes TWO applications to achieve 90% effectiveness, Trump pills reduce death rate by 97.4% in one course of treatment)
Great post except for your last line: please don't promote the notion that this is "normal everyday flu." It's not. It has a far higher R0, and it started as being able to attach to human lungs much better. It has mutated, and probably continues to. Most mutations are harmful to the organism mutating, and other evolutionary pressures would also make this virus less lethal as it mutates.
I doubt anyone knows what we're dealing with at this point. Fortunately it's a lot less problematic than we thought at first. That's a very good thing. This is still not "normal everyday flu." Too bad they won't let us have the medicine proven to be most effective, and more effective than the most effective vaccine ever made, for anything. (Polio vaccine takes TWO applications to achieve 90% effectiveness, Trump pills reduce death rate by 97.4% in one course of treatment)