6472
Comments (2753)
sorted by:
You're viewing a single comment thread. View all comments, or full comment thread.
26
merkmerk73 26 points ago +29 / -3

It can be a big deal, even to normal folks

There's a bunch of data coming out about T cell immunity and stuff like that, and also false positive tests. Also some data suggesting that it's just getting weaker for some reason.

25
Vivadiscordia 25 points ago +28 / -3

Viruses tend to just grow weaker over time. A virus that kills its host is not able to spread easily.

1
deleted 1 point ago +1 / -0
-20
WhitePowerRanger -20 points ago +3 / -23

They don’t get weaker, we get stronger by catching it and learning it and fighting it naturally. By trying to contain it (lol when has playing God ever worked out for anyone. When will these fools learn??), you’re essentially just allowing it to wreak havoc for longer. Let’s all orgy with Trump and Melania and covid would be over tonight

Edit since mr know it all things he knows everything. The flu gets stronger every year and quickly mutates. Hepatitis isn’t getting any weaker. Meningitis is super uncommon but shows zero signs of weakening or “dying out”. AIDS turned into super aids. Viruses tend to grow stronger over time if anything, not weaker.

16
Vivadiscordia 16 points ago +18 / -2

Viruses absolutely do get weaker overtime. A viral strain that is too deadly is not able to spread efficiently. If the host is killed they obviously cannot spread the virus. That's natural selection. More deadly strains die out, while weaker strains successfully propagate.

-6
WhitePowerRanger -6 points ago +4 / -10

If the host is killed they obviously cannot spread the virus.

Bubonic plague and Ebola have entered the chat. Lol like did you wipe your ass and your comment showed up on the toilet paper?

-19
WhitePowerRanger -19 points ago +2 / -21

Uhh the flu literally mutates stronger every year.

Meningitis will fuck your shit up

Hepatitis also entered the chat.

AIDS turned into super aids.

I mean lol literally name me one fucking virus that’s ever gotten “weaker”

4
45willwinagain 4 points ago +4 / -0

most of them do get weaker.

if something kills you a few days after you get it, it's not going to spread that well because it burns itself out before it can spread.

because of that getting "weaker" can make it more contagious, but you gotta look at these things on a case-by-case basis. they don't all follow that "rule".

mutations can be good for us, or really really bad, it depends on the virus and the mutation.

1
BloodElfSupporter 1 point ago +1 / -0

There has been an aspartic acid to glycine mutation on the surface protein of the virus. It’s been shown to be more infective but less lethal, so that’s one reason the virus seems “weaker”. Also evolutionarily speaking, a virus that can spread to more hosts (therefore it has to be not lethal to kill the host before spreading further) will be considered a more “successful” type and is what viruses “aspire” to evolve into.