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In reply to the discussion: Evolution Will Not Favor Those Who Refuse Vaccination [View all]targetpractice
(4,919 posts)2. Natural selection, for sure. Evolution? Maybe...
... I get what you are saying... But, that would mean that stupidity or vaccine hesitancy or risk taking are genetic and heritable traits.
Evolution by natural selection works over generations and takes time. Dumb people can still have smart offspring.
But, I agree there is a lot of selective pressures happening right now with COVID... It's driving the evolution of more robust virus as well as favoring humans with a natural resistance. Vaccine modulated resistance is not heritable, though.
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It's not instantaneous, but over multiple generations, the stupid gradually kill off their lines...
lagomorph777
Aug 2021
#6
Yeah - that's one way to do it - have 10 kids; won't matter if 5 of them die of stupidity.
lagomorph777
Aug 2021
#25
Those 5 have 10 of their own and so on - it's a winning strategy for global collapse.
Probatim
Aug 2021
#27
I'm wondering, for a highly social species, can we consider two types of inheritance: DNA, and
lagomorph777
Aug 2021
#36
When this started, I asked a colleague how the electoral map would compare to cases per 100k.
Probatim
Aug 2021
#26
I came up with that term after seeing just story after story of stupid people...
Initech
Aug 2021
#30
I've stopped caring about them. No more fucks to give. Not one iota of guilt about it.
NurseJackie
Aug 2021
#9
The only reason I care has to do with children too young for the vaccination.
MineralMan
Aug 2021
#15
I'm not sure natural selection will weed out this particular brand of idiocy.
Ocelot II
Aug 2021
#17
As serious as the pandemic is, even with over 600,000 dead so far in this country,
PoindexterOglethorpe
Aug 2021
#21