@xxxGirlCrushxxx
This new 'variant' is called the common sense variant..... no symptoms,no lft required,just carry on as NORMAL
Symptomless spread is a common feature of many illnesses, such as Typhoid, Cholera, HIV Chlamydia, Gonorrhoea, Herpes, HPV, TB, Hepatitis, C Diff...
Being asymptomatic in humans - at least initially - is an advantage for the virus, not for humans.
It enables it to spread undetected without us doing anything to stop it.
(It might be behind the "sudden" surges in Germany, Netherlands, and Austria, among others. )
Being symptomless would enable covid to spread all over the world quickly and constantly through our travel. We are much more helpful hosts that those bats.
It keeps the pandemic going.
It makes it much harder to keep covid under control.
It would require constant routine testing.
It enables a small number of hosts to infect a large number of people like Typhoid Mary.
It increases the number of variants, the possibility of more vaccine escape, and increases the number of times we'll each catch covid.
It helps covid evolve into a fitter pathogen because more cases = more mutations.
It is unlikely to be symptomless for everyone.
It may not be symptomless forever.
It may be one of the viruses that is only mild or symptomless at first, but can do silent damage, make you susceptible to something else, or turn into a serious illness later. Like HIV, chickenpox/shingles. Polio, Chlamydia.
🦠 TL;DR Being symptomless is good news for covid. Not us. 🦠