@pie that's mean
@freemo how is your sister? Didn't you say she had the #Coronavirus?
Its so good to know so many of the projects I founded or am project owner on (open-source projects specifically) are used by so many people. Its easy to forget but everytime I release a new version the emails start flying in from people thanking me or asking questions. It really keeps me going.
I'm not particularly scared of the Coronavirus.. yes a lot of people will die and it will be a tragedy and I wish it could be avoided, but its not the end of the world, most of us will make it through.
What scares me though is if this thing starts recombinating with the other coronavirus strains, plus there may already be two strains of the one causing the epidemic too.
If this thing start recombinating the problem is never going to go away and vaccines may never be possible. That is a scary though.
The biggest risk in the coronavirus epidemic in my non-expert opinion is going to be assortment. IF this happens with any of the strains already adapted to infect humans we might really be in trouble...
We already know that Coronaviruses int he wild are capable of recombination...
A good read and somewhat related:
Wong MC, Cregeen SJ, Ajami NJ, Petrosino JF (February 2020). "Evidence of recombination in coronaviruses implicating pangolin origins of nCoV-2019". bioRxiv (preprint). doi:10.1101/2020.02.07.939207.
I've moved over to @realcaseyrollins for my private account
This is literally just here to archive my old posts now