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Originally Posted by White Out 403
I'm not a virologist, obviously, but doesn't it make sense that the longer a virus carries on it finds itself a way to replicate more and be less deadly? It's not really in the interest of a virus to be so deadly that it can't carry on in more hosts
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In a sense, this is the more likely scenario. Although not by any means a guarantee. The virus is so transmissible that it's already infected multiple people in most cases before the host even comes close to death. It very well could become much more virulent. By no means have humans as race done anything remarkedly well in response to covid due to politicizing science. We've just been incredibly lucky it's gone a better less virulent route. It could of gone more virulent and more transmissible.
The most popular hypothesis is that Covid got into a singular patient that was immunocompromised, likely in someone with aids, and this person also was infected with the common cold. The immune system attacked the viruses enough to get rid of the majority of them, but still remained, the viruses adapted, another wave of replication occurred, then another immune response occurred, and created a loop that went on for who knows how long and mutated together due to high prevalence of both viruses in one person, hence the many mutations on the binding receptors. Not fact, just most likely event.