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goobster  ·  1735 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: "COVID-19 Will Mark the End of Affluence Politics"

COVID-19 is a flu. Like the common seasonal flu, it may wax and wane with the seasons.

However, it is also prominent in the southern hemisphere, where it is not flu season.

So the speculation on the seasonality may be wrong.

Or maybe it has mutated. Which is the scary bit. Flu ain't so bad, because it comes and goes and doesn't really have a chance to iterate and mutate in really ugly ways.

COVID-19 may break that pattern... which would make it year-round... which would give it far more ability to mutate, and for those mutations to spread.

THAT's the future of COVID-19 that worries me.





kleinbl00  ·  1735 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    However, it is also prominent in the southern hemisphere, where it is not flu season.

I believe we're at two cases in Africa, four cases in Australia, one case in Brazil and 82,547 cases in the northern hemisphere.

steve  ·  1735 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I found this interesting, and have been watching coworkers flip out about it

https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/bda7594740fd40299423467b48e9ecf6