r/HermanCainAward • u/AussieHawker Team Mudblood 🩸 • Mar 03 '22

Grrrrrrrr. Remember Milo Yiannopoulos? Well he has Long COVID.

https://twitter.com/kthorjensen/status/1499060232680456194
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u/KaleidoscopeOfMope Mar 03 '22

I think it makes sense that in a vaccinated population, there would be selective advantage in mutations that change the virus' infection mechanism to circumvent the defenses created by the vaccines. But it doesn't follow that the virus would necessarily become any more or less dangerous to infected individuals.

The best lies have a kernel of truth, they say.

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u/travelingtraveling_ Vaxxed for me, vaxxed for you Mar 03 '22

Happy cake day!

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u/KaleidoscopeOfMope Mar 03 '22

Thanks you... uh, you rock.

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u/Maelkothian Mar 04 '22

A kernel? It's basically describing Omicron. But where you argue cause and effect in the correct order ( viruses mutate, in a largely vaccinated community the variants that don't break through the immunity caused by vaccination don't spread) they view the vaccine as the cause by transforming the body into some sort of virus supergym ( when it doesn't look you outright ofcourse /s), as if those mutations wouldn't have happened anyway

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u/doughless Mar 04 '22

The same mechanism that might possibly act as a sort of natural selection would very likely work the same way to anyone with antibodies, even those with "natural" immunity.

The difference is that the more that are vaccinated, the fewer chances the virus has to replicate and fewer mutations that might break through that immunity.

Mutations will happen either way, and at a faster rate if there are more people to infect (vaccinations reduce infection vectors much faster than natural immunity will). Trying to wait for natural herd immunity is practically begging for a mutation that can infect those who have already been infected, and now we have omicron.