The claim doesn’t seem necessarily true. Why would a more transmissible virus be more deadly? (aside from general virulence I suppose..). It isn’t hard to think of some very contagious viruses that don’t seem all that deadly (herpes, cold, flu) and some much less transmissible viruses that are quite deadly (AIDS).
I suppose more deadly viruses generally require more transmissibility to survive than less deadly ones do, but A → B does not mean B → A.
Viruses are generally horizontal, I don’t see why one horizontal thing would a priori be more negative than another horizontal thing, just based on a vertical vs horizontal idea
The virus example doesn’t seem right to me.
The claim doesn’t seem necessarily true. Why would a more transmissible virus be more deadly? (aside from general virulence I suppose..). It isn’t hard to think of some very contagious viruses that don’t seem all that deadly (herpes, cold, flu) and some much less transmissible viruses that are quite deadly (AIDS).
I suppose more deadly viruses generally require more transmissibility to survive than less deadly ones do, but A → B does not mean B → A.
Viruses are generally horizontal, I don’t see why one horizontal thing would a priori be more negative than another horizontal thing, just based on a vertical vs horizontal idea