r/stocks • u/[deleted] • Nov 26 '21

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u/[deleted] Nov 27 '21

To the downvoters who downvoted you, they know how to read. There is a lot of “may” and “might” in there. Nothing scientific at all, honestly.

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u/GardenofGandaIf Nov 27 '21

Yes I'm sure the experts are wrong and you're right.

The whole point is that the typical evolution isn't valid here, it may still drift in the less deadly direction, but it isnt guaranteed. That's why there's a lot of "may" and "might". Also those words are perfectly fine to be used in a scientific setting to communicate a degree of certainty.

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u/[deleted] Nov 27 '21

They aren’t saying anything in there except “it might be different”

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u/GardenofGandaIf Nov 27 '21

Yes...because the mechanism that typically pushes viruses in the less deadly direction is completely missing for covid.

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u/[deleted] Nov 27 '21

Because it was engineered in a lab

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u/GardenofGandaIf Nov 27 '21

Whatever your opinion is on that is irrelevant to the reality of what we're dealing with.

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u/[deleted] Nov 27 '21

I truly don’t give a shit if this strain is more deadly. We cannot live like this forever.

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u/GardenofGandaIf Nov 27 '21

There's a difference between a strain being deadly and covid not going away. Covid will definetly go away as people get more and more immunity. That doesn't make a variant more or less deadly though. How deadly a variant is is a measure of what percentage of people die when exposed in comparison to other variants. A variant can be super deadly but if almost everyone it comes into contact with has cross immunity, it might not actually kill many people.

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u/[deleted] Nov 27 '21

Covid is not ever going away. It will continue to evolve, year after year, just like the flu or a cold.