30% of all ICUs in London hospitals are occupied by COVID-19 patients with complications. 90% of these are unvaccinated.
We might be witnessing an evolutionary-scale event right now: people who for some (hereditary?) reasons chose a strong belief and are unable to adjust it on arrival of new data seem to be right now removing themselves from the gene pool. 🤔
@kravietz most of them have had kids by this moment, though.
People often forget that natural selection works specifically by killing off failed mutants *before* they had a chance to procreate.
@isagalaev Death isn't necessary.
Removal from the reproductive pool or a markedly-lower probabalistic success in reproductive / survival are.
There was some research on higher incidence of impotence as result of COVID-19 complications.
I was also thinking about this older age mortality factor — I might be wrong but in humans the reproductive success seems to be multi-generational and associated with social status.
If your anti-vaxx parents die, you have lower chances of getting to prestigious university, get a well-paid job and generally lower influen on others.
@isagalaev @kravietz @dredmorbius how many other diseases with 99.5% survival rate have significantly affected human evolution?
That's the point — Covid-19 mortality is highly age-dependent
https://www.statista.com/statistics/1191568/reported-deaths-from-covid-by-age-us/
