11-26-2021, 08:24 PM
(11-26-2021, 02:43 PM)727Sky Wrote: Why am I not surprised ? https://www.cnbc.com/2021/11/25/who-call...tions.html
https://www.india.com/news/world/new-var...d-5111991/
32 mutations you say? THAT certainly sounds suspicious, for 32 mutations to show up suddenly in a single variant... it's almost like someone were intentionally tinkering with it...
Natural mutations evolve towards increased spread, but decreased lethality. Killing off the host organism slows spread, and natural mutations evolve towards increased spread. The mass vaccination programs would tend towards evolving mechanisms to bypass the vaccine, and more vaccinated would tend towards more chances for those mutations to occur, be successful, and propagate. I would expect something like that to naturally show up in a high vaccine population, like Israel, rather than South Africa, but I don't know what the vaccination rate in South Africa is, so I could be wrong about that. It does seem suspiciously soon for those mutations to occur naturally.
All that to say that this new variant just doesn't sound like a natural occurrence to me.
Personally, I think the answer to this is more national lockdowns - closing borders to EVERYONE not a citizen of that nation - than increasing globalization and erasing borders. That would confine these new "variants" to their points of origin, and slow the spread worldwide. The lockdowns would need to be proactive rather than reactive. Locking the barn door after the horse is already loose doesn't really solve anything.
I would also expect any new variants to start in Asia currently. Remember that Chinese hypersonic missile test? Remember that it "released" something over the South China Sea? I would expect a new variant, therefore, to start in that vicinity, and spread from there. fact is, this one may have started in Hong Kong (it's present there, according to the articles), and then spread to South Africa FROM there. South Africa is less hygiene-conscious, so it would stand a better chance of spreading enough to be "discovered" there.
Things just get curiouser and curiouser...
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Diogenes was eating bread and lentils for supper. He was seen by the philosopher Aristippus, who lived comfortably by flattering the king.
Said Aristippus, ‘If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.’ Said Diogenes, ‘Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.’
Said Aristippus, ‘If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.’ Said Diogenes, ‘Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.’