teknoman2

the reality is that no matter the variant, eventually everyone will get it. its like the flu, except for living in total isolation, there is no way to avoid coming in contact with someone who has it. protective measures like masks and vaccines are not 100% effective so its just a question of time and luck.

by the way i did a self test today because i was feeling a little unwell and it was positive. considering the symptoms its probably the omicron variant, very slight fever, just a hint of coughing but a lot of muscle ache and a sore throat. monday i'll do a rapid test for verification and a pcr if that's positive too. worse that can happen i get 5 days off work

biology 101 every living thing's purpose is to survive as long as possible. the virus that survives the longest is the virus that does not kill the host and even better if it's harmless enough to not provoke an immune response, so the natural evolution of all viruses is to eventually become as harmless as possible. think of how many types of symbiotic microbial life exists in our bodies, many of these started off as deadly pathogens. a virus like ebola that has a high mortality rate can kill off a population before it has a chance to evolve into a milder variant so that process for it is very slow but for a virus like covid19 that already has a very low mortality rate, this evolutionary process is very fast as indicated by the very mild omicron variant (which is the 15th letter of the greek alphabet, which would imply that this is the 15th known variant in under 2 years)

gays in the 80s "let the bigots screech, i'm gonna be a living legend and make the world respect me" gays today "i'm entitled to respect and the government should make it illegal for people to dislike me"

losing weight makes you lose the thermal insulation of your body and winter becomes colder

a communist jewish savior i might add.

this reminds me of my cousin. she turned on the heat in the car to unfreeze the windows without turning on the engine and took a plastic spatula to remove the ice. by the time she was done and was ready to go, she had ran out of battery and couldn't start the engine.

we can always pretend it happened off screen