This is what wishful thinking looks like: there's no reason to assume that the Mink has less symptoms or got less sick etc: just like humans they got reinfected shortly after infection: and probably had more severe disease if anything.
https://twitter.com/randall_plant/status/1462856174810791942
So let's just imagine this was true: they are reinfected and mainly asymptotic carriers now: what does that mean? well, it means they will pass the virus on undetected: sooner or later a new variant and or strain will arise from that...Possibilities are endless here.
I think what many Drs don't seem to understand is that viruses aren't going to start being nice one day: just like the heart disease they treat and cancers etc: they don't start getting less severe just because you have 60-70% effective drug you can give SOME people.
They also seem to have a hard time understanding multiplication: so normally, a Dr treats one patient with one condition, moves on. Covid is not like that: where there's one patient there will be many more next week or tomorrow, until totally overwhelmed.
So lacking is this understanding of multiplicative dynamics in Covid that many Drs are fooled into thinking that because they've spent months seeing a steady stream of 2-3 Covid patients, that's how things will remain from now on: no more surges.
Until we hit that magic boom that will come sooner or later with uncontrolled spread: then, 10 come through door, then 20, then 50, and before you know it it's everywhere and everything is chaos.
I think this is something they need to start teaching at medical school. Teaching individual treatment, but also how to deal with multiplicative events such as this virus: by the time the hospitals are overwhelmed: it's already too late.
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