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  Chances are Corona will burn out by itself through mutation:

  https://uk.reuters.com/article/u…
  "The new coronavirus is losing its potency and has become much less lethal, a senior Italian doctor said on Sunday. "In reality, the virus clinically no longer exists in Italy," said Alberto Zangrillo, the head of the San Raffaele Hospital in Milan in the northern region of Lombardy, which has borne the brunt of Italy's coronavirus contagion."

  https://science.slashdot.org/com…
  "Actually this is how a typical process of natural selection of novel pathogens like this particular coronavirus go. Most people forget that primary opponents of any new viral agent are not our immune systems but other strains of the same virus competing for the same cells in human body. That means that various strains of this virus compete with one another for living space.

  And that automatically selects for more benign traits over time, because strains that don't kill the host and therefore don't die with the host. (And need a live specimen to spread rather than a dead one as is the case with most viruses that are spread via cough and similar symptoms - dead people don't cough). Such strains tend to be more effective at spreading, giving it a distinct evolutionary advantage."

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    https://www.reuters.…uan
  • Beautiful principle. A successful virus does not kill its hostdrgs
  • "I'll be back"i_was
  • we've read so much different things on that virus since the last 2 months, i dont know what to believeBennn
  • ya sure. you guys to ahead and volunteer to be the first group of human trials.pango
  • Dead people don't cough. But they do walk around for two weeks prior spearing it to everyone unknowingly.microkorg

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