colfax_m
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Except they’re not going to be infected with the exact same virus.It doesn’t need time. It needs replications and infections.The faster you accelerate infections, the fewer variants become possible because there is no time.
The faster you accelerate infections, the faster you accumulate variants.
In a lab, you can induce evolution and create variants by forcing viruses to go through many replication cycles and infection cycles rapidly. You’re suggesting doing the exact same thing to hundreds of millions of people in just this country.
Wrong.
If you cause a million replications of the same original RNA, there is NO evolution because the replications happened in parallel, at the same time, and there can be no significant genetic change in one generation.
You can not "force" viruses to go through replication cycles.
They happen at a fairly fixed rate, and you can't speed them up.
You can slow them down, but that is irrelevant to the discussion.
To cause evolution you need to increase the number of generations in series, not the number of infections or offspring in parallel. And that is simply a matter of time. The longer any epidemic is kept around, the more it will evolve variants.
The early peak when the infection rate is at its highest, does not at all allow for any evolution because there are not enough generations. It happens too quickly for that.
You seem to think everyone is going to get the infection simultaneously. That’s not how this works.