I can't wait for Delta and Omicron to have a baby...

Mr Doof

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Hopefully the next variant will be less deadly.
It seems to have worked out a fair amount of immune system evasion and vaccine escape on its own so if it was a real go-getter, a bit of recombination with SARS1 (in birds) would show who is in charge. Mammal transmission coupled with bird derived lethality for the win!

I think this would be unlikely though, since SARS2 seems to just infect multiple mammal species.....though that does allow for potential weirdo zoonotic disease (like the types of influenza that crosses species).
 

Sharky

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Soybois sounds like a social disease you can git rid of with antibiotics.

WTF is wrong with me today?

Good night.
 

Autoprax

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People respond differently to uncertainty.

Some will under react and some will over react.

We see this with this historic pandemic.