• Zephorah@discuss.online
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    2 days ago

    So what is the plan here? To expose all of our healthcare workers and risk an immediate collapse of the system? Current policy is every symptomatic worker stay home for 10 days. If half a hospital is out sick what would that look like?

    What if there’s another COVID mutation, for the worse?

    And what about the flu? It remains a wild card. The incredible ability of flu to mutate is why there isn’t 1 vaccine. The yearly shot isn’t for 1 flu but several. The virus continues to mutate across its strains, and we get another shot the next year.

    There’s a reason flu is popular for apocalypse books. The Stand, Station Eleven, etc. Because mass casualty scenarios with flu are plausible.

    • overthere@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      2 days ago

      Maybe a coronavirus was the plan for killing off the plebs when they finished hooking up LLMs to the means of production and didn’t need us anymore.

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        On one hand, LLMs won’t actually be able to do that.

        On the other hand, they might think they can.

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      The flu vaccine sucks though. It’s their best guess as to which strains will be prevalent. Sometimes they guess wrong and life sucks anyway. At least COVID was more targeted.

      Maybe COVID vaccine sucks now too since it seems to be less lethal with more strains now.