When I was in DC working for the Obama administration over several years, and MERS-CoV as well as H1N1 hit, I tried to explain this to people. I couldn't believe the ridicule I received. I then sent various articles, and they ignored them.
It’s not a coincidence that you were ridiculed They probably had security escort you out for being a raving lunatic since your field of study has nothing to do with anything remotely related to this subject matter
Mutate to death was perhaps a bad way to explain but you are too caught up in your gotcha moment. I’ve already agreed that the pattern of immunity plays a role. I also agree that individual mutations are random. What I’m saying is that, historically, the respiratory viruses do not keep collecting mutations that result in them being more virulent over time. We get a number of waves and then they tend to start mutating down a path where the mutations are less dangerous, and it’s not all because we have immunity to the previous variants but that is a part of it. So I’m agreeing with you for the most part and you can stop picking on one attempt to describe a pattern as if it’s the most important thing in the thread.
If it's totally random, why were they trying to find the animal that the bat virus jumped to before being able to infect humans? Were they just so stupid to not realize that the mutations are completely random and didn't need a primary and secondary host to get to this point? Why would anybody be speculating on whether it was manipulated in a lab?
The reason the most virulent mutations don’t last is because they run out of people to infect (everybody gets infected in a hurry) or because the infected die too quickly to allow for new infections. The only problem is those mutations kill a bunch of people before disappearing
That is true and also a simplified view of it. Just because you have immunity to one variant doesn’t in any way mean that you have immunity to another and there’s no guarantee to what degree the natural immunity will carry over. Many of the coronaviruses that caused pandemics are still with us and have the ability to randomly mutate to something pandemic-level. Yet we don’t see that, do we? Natural immunity plays a big part but not the only part. Regardless, I’m done. Think what you will, this is too tedious.
What kind of bullshit are you trying to spew out? Holy tangent city. All this talk about mutations isn’t very relevant when you get COVID and are 6 feet under. It’s not relevant to real life situations. Most of it is theoretical as there are too many variables to predict what a virus can do as far as the number of mutations, how quickly mutations occur, and how virulent those strains are.
You’re right. I forgot that we are a bunch of Neanderthals that can only relate to shot like, no shot hate.
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