I was just thinking the same thing. However, the “depletion of the susceptibles” is happening at a faster rate than the creation of susceptibles, resulting in a net attrition.
I was just thinking the same thing. However, the “depletion of the susceptibles” is happening at a faster rate than the creation of susceptibles, resulting in a net attrition.
@ToshiAkima It is one of those things that we know must be happening, but the relative size of the effect remains unknown. But I don't think letting a pandemic kill the maximum number of people possible (but a bit more slowly) is a very good public health strategy.
@AlanBixter Absolutely, there will be a depletion of those who are phenotypically and genotypically predisposed to adverse outcomes. It's what's always happened in evolutionary history. But public health is, by definition, an interventional paradigm.
@ToshiAkima What many don't understand that past evolutionary performance provides no assurance at all of future survival. Natural selection is very cruel to the raw material on which it works.