So is COVID now less dangerous

[girlcrushonvillanelle]

Back during lockdown we saw the awful stories of front line health care workers and other key workers such as bus drivers sadly lose their lives due to COVID.

The case numbers and death numbers obviously still continue, but it seems to be the very vulnerable who are affected.

Don't get me wrong, i don't wish for anyone to die from this awful pandemic and I'm not suggesting that we lift restrictions just because it might be less dangerous. It was merely a thought for discussion.

But I have read that a virus does not aim to kill its victims, but just to spread as far as it can, and that many of our common viruses we have now started off similar many many years ago.

The belief is now that asymptomatic people don't spread it. It is all sown to people with symptoms.

Following on from my point earlier about the critical difference between asymptomatic and pre-symptomatic people, if was was simply spread by those with symptoms, Covid would be far, far more straightforward to have quashed like with SARS and MERS. We’d just have to take everyone’s temperature before they entered anywhere and all would be able to have get on with life!