The worst case for COVID is that we get semiannual mutant escape pandemics which kill about 1% of victims, until we get better vaccines with universal worldwide rollout faster than the infection/mutation loop, OR a wide-spectrum vaxx/antiviral. Could be decades …
— Charlie Stross (@cstross) December 19, 2021
The usual suspects being idiots and wanting to take away more and more. They really get their rocks off on this, don’t they? It’s becoming increasingly clear by the way that Omicron is milder than other variants, though the science isn’t solid yet.
These goofuses are particularly obsessed with making sure no one travels, which is just an odd thing because even during the Middle Ages the Black Plague spread just fine with much less travel going on.
When I say "unrecognizable" I mean travel will larely be curtailed. An entire generation of elderly politicians and oligarchs will have run out of luck and died, gasping, on ventilators. COVID will have destabilized intergenerational relations, politics, and economics.
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— Charlie Stross (@cstross) December 19, 2021
By the way, Stross’s back alley epidemiology is not really what’s happening. But that doesn’t matter — all they care about is making sure that you don’t get to do the things you want to do. The pandemic is not the actual reason; it was just a good entrepôt to that longstanding and deeper wish.