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minus-squareNougat@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up3·10 days agoThat last part actually works by culling the people who have the most severe symptoms. So you would be building natural immunity in the population, over a long period of time, by dying before you produce offspring.
minus-squareMouselemming@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·10 days agoShit, I already have kids. Might as well skip it then.
minus-squareshininghero@pawb.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·10 days agoOnly for more genetically stable diseases that don’t mutate into new strains every single year.
minus-squareSapphironZA@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·10 days agoExcept you supercharge the mutation of the disease as well, so its a rinse and repeat cycle.
That last part actually works by culling the people who have the most severe symptoms. So you would be building natural immunity in the population, over a long period of time, by dying before you produce offspring.
Shit, I already have kids. Might as well skip it then.
Only for more genetically stable diseases that don’t mutate into new strains every single year.
Except you supercharge the mutation of the disease as well, so its a rinse and repeat cycle.