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Originally Posted by mikemhg
This variant news is like fear porn.
There will always be variants, there's variants of every virus we deal with on a regular basis from the common cold, to flu, etc.
What is the point in whipping people up about COVID variants? This virus will continue to be with us, and continue to evolve/change.
Seems such a waste of energy to worry about it IMHO.
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The appearance of a variant is not scary in itself - that's why I posted that tweet thread from the doctor explaining that it could mean nothing. But it's still news because it has to be treated seriously, because unlike cold or flu variants, a particularly dangerous covid variants would put us in a world of hurt.
We don't know if this is one or not; it's probably not. But it could be, which is why many countries are blocking flights from Africa now.
Keeping up with covid news in the covid thread is not really fear porn... But I can see why shitty talk shows and bad faith news sources would use it to create that...