• RobotToasterOP
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      A far worse possibility is that it is “just a cold”, but the common coronaviruses that cause the common cold may not be as harmless as we thought.

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      What gets me is ‘just a cold’ is still fucking terrifying when it’s new and highly transmissible.

      Remember Zika virus? It causes ‘just a cold’. Barely an inconvenience! …unless you’re pregnant, then your baby is fucked!.

      Imagine if covid turned out to be a teratogen like that.

      Imagine if there wasn’t even a cold - you get it, carry it, spread it, all with no symptoms; then anyone who spent any time around you who gets pregnant pops out a microcephalic baby. Dude, humanity might not recover from that.

      Microbastards are terrifying.