Quote Originally Posted by asplundii View Post
Exactly. That is what I said but you said it was irrelevant. So where is our communication break down? Cause we seem to be saying the same thing...
Because in this scenario we are the hosts.


Quote Originally Posted by asplundii View Post
I do not understand this statement. How does my being correct lead to my being dead? (Also, and yes I am just nitpicking, you can not be "more" dead. You either are dead or you are not LOL )
Not you personally, you as in humans. Ok so imagine where you live is the pocket in question. You see if everyone where you live dies then sure you are right. Future generations will be lucky that the disease got less deadly due to selective pressure, but you are dead in this scenario. Thats bad.



Quote Originally Posted by asplundii View Post
Not so. There are numerous pressures that drive an organism down a given path. One pressure that keeps virulence down is the hotter strains dropping hosts before being passed on. Another pressure is that the strains that cause the least amount of debilitation are the ones most likely to be passed on. Both are selective pressures, it is just that one is a pressure against while the other is a pressure for. The latter type need not kill anyone to get to the ideal host/pathogen relationship: infection, amplification and spread without any actual disease.
lets assume for the sake of the argument that I understand the concepts you are talking about. I am not talking about the disease 20 years from now. I am not worried about catching the disease you are talking about. I am worried about the weird mutant disease that only lasts a month but manages to take out 50% of humans on the planet in that month.