Cross-posted from: https://feddit.de/post/8224710
China has reportedly embarked on a controversial path of experimenting with a new Covid-like virus, characterized by a 100% fatality rate in mice. The unfolding scenario raises concerns about the potential risks associated with such experiments, especially the prospect of the virus spilling over into the human population.
IT sounds all gloom and doom, but if the original had been that effective we’d have a smaller vaccine-denier population right now. Silver linings and all…
Maybe it makes me a monster but I feel we would have been a lot better off with a higher mortality rate, and I say this as a person who has had covid twice.
One would like to believe that, but there were people literally denying the existence of Covid and vaccine effectiveness with their death rattle as they died from Covid itself.
Sadly, I feel like there’s nothing that would break through that level of obstinate, willful ignorance. If you had huge mass deaths up front people would still deny it, or say it was due to vaccines.
I think you’re missing the point: If covid had been a lot more lethal, then the people who acted in belligerent ignorance would be a significantly smaller portion of the population afterwards.
I’m not here to change people’s minds, that basically impossible unless you are a demagogue.
On the other hand, if the most stubborn, ignorant, and easily fooled people had the brunt of mortalities (which so far very study indicates is true), then if there was a 20% mortality rate, consider what the population of the nation would look after that.
Does that make me a monster? Probably.