The “common cold” is hundreds of different rhinoviruses, adenoviruses, coronaviruses and influenza viruses (and some others) that present the same symptoms.
https://twitter.com/kokomored1/status/1396610096331853825
Humans are tough but we’re also prone to a multitude of infectious diseases. We can survive most of these things and they proliferate precisely because they don’t do much harm. Viruses need living hosts to spread. Viruses that kill tend not to spread very easily or for very long.
What makes COVID19 so scary (to epidemiologists) is that it spreads more easily than the flu, it’s hard to detect because symptoms don’t present immediately, and it’s a magnitude more lethal than your regular infection to vulnerable (obese, elderly, pre-existing issues) people.
You know how you win on a battlefield? Turn your enemies into gimps so the able bodied among them have to look after them. Attrition hurts far worse than outright slaughter (and is easier to accomplish) because it provokes a much more sluggish response. All you need is patience.
Worth noting that you’re not gonna have a snowflake’s chance in hell to fight anything with bioengineered sophistication with a shitty cocktail of cheap drugs.
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