[FRIAM] Covid and Politics

[Frank Wimberly]

Benignness.  Benignity means kindness or tolerance toward others.  See how
annoying we language obsessives are.

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Frank C. Wimberly
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On Tue, May 26, 2020, 2:11 PM <thompnickson2 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Yes.  The virus will evolve toward benignity, but only IF the transmission
> rate is slowed.  If allowed full freedom, the virus will first evolve
> toward virility (high mortality rate) and then, as herd immunity is
> achieved, become mild and endemic.  Think of the competition within each
> host between the different strains.  The benign strain is making fewer
> copies of itself, but has a greater chance of being passed between hosts;
> the virulent strain is making more copies, but in that effort, is killing
> off it’s hosts quicker.  It’s a trait group selection problem.  Under high
> transmissibility, the virulent strain wins; under low transmissibility, the
> benign strain wins.
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> I hope I got that right.
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> Nicholas Thompson
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> Emeritus Professor of Ethology and Psychology
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> Clark University
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> ThompNickSon2 at gmail.com
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> https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/
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> *From:* Friam <friam-bounces at redfish.com> *On Behalf Of *Prof David West
> *Sent:* Tuesday, May 26, 2020 1:57 PM
> *To:* friam at redfish.com
> *Subject:* Re: [FRIAM] Covid and Politics
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> Does not Ewald suggest that a virus might evolve to be more benign
> vis-a-vis its hosts so as to maximize the number of potential hosts, i.e.
> avoid killing them off and reducing their will and actions in resistance?
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> Probably totally misread him as that is not at all my field of interest.
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> On Tue, May 26, 2020, at 1:49 PM, thompnickson2 at gmail.com wrote:
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> It gets even MORE interesting if we consider the variable environment to
> which the virus is optimizing.  According to Ewald’s theory
> <https://www.amazon.com/s?k=evolution+of+infectious+disease+by+paul+ewald&i=stripbooks&crid=2M9WVN279ILHB&sprefix=Paul+Ewald+evolu%2Cstripbooks%2C271&ref=nb_sb_ss_i_1_16>,
> the virulence of the virus evolves in relation to its Ro, so a more
> transmissible virus will become more virulent, etc and vv.
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> Nicholas Thompson
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> Emeritus Professor of Ethology and Psychology
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> Clark University
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> ThompNickSon2 at gmail.com
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> https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/
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> *From:* Friam <friam-bounces at redfish.com> *On Behalf Of *Marcus Daniels
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> *Sent:* Tuesday, May 26, 2020 1:36 PM
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> *To:* The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <
> friam at redfish.com>
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> *Subject:* Re: [FRIAM] Covid and Politics
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> Dave writes:
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> < 3.5 million deaths is perfectly acceptable. Mostly because that total
> will accumulate at a rate of 150-170,000 per year which puts COVID in the
> lower half of the top five causes of death in the US. >
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> It gets more interesting if SARS-Cov2 is optimizing itself.
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> Marcus
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