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By: Decomposed in 6TH POPE | Recommend this post (2)
Tue, 11 Jan 22 7:08 PM | 34 view(s)
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Re: “It was my understanding that as each new variant appears it is weaker and has less effects on people than the preceding one thus over time the virus is almost of none effect.”It's not quite like that. At any given time, there are many variants of SARS-CoV-2 circulating. A member of any variant can mutate. Mutations are really just reproductive mistakes and most of the mistakes are disadvantages that cause the mutant to fail or at least not excel in a highly competitive world. On those rare occasions that a mutatation helps a mutant to thrive, it may spread quickly enough to get the attention of the World Heath Organization and get itself named.

A newly named variant that springs up tomorrow could be the offspring of Omicron, or of Delta, or of one of the billions of other variants the WHO never knew about. It could even be the offspring of the original SARS-CoV-2 and thus set us back by a year or two.

The reason viruses tend to mutate toward being less virulent is that a virus that is MORE virulent doesn't spread as quickly because its host is more likely to be too sick to interact with other potential hosts ... or even to die. More virulent viruses are therefore outcompeted for new hosts by their less virulent brethren. They eventually die off just as a new species of critter would probably die off if the difference between it and its siblings was that it couldn't acquire the resources it needed to thrive as well as the siblings.

That's how it's supposed to work. But in a world where many hosts have the "jab," people infected with a more virulent variant can be asymptomatic, putting the new variant at no disadvantage when it comes to spreading. Therefore, a nastier version of the virus definitely could arise.

Rather than thinking of the named variants as being links in a chain with each being spun off from the last, you should instead think of them as being branches on a tree. Any given branch can spawn a new branch. Any given new branch could be the one that the WHO next finds interesting enough to name. They could hopscotch all over the tree, naming variants that are both more and less advanced than the last one they named.

I hope I explained that well enough. The lesson humanity needs to learn is that vaccinating a population is a great thing to do before a pandemic but a lousy idea DURING a pandemic. It's possible for a super-virulent strain of SARS-CoV-2 to arise and spread as a direct result of the vaccines allowing the host of such a variant to thrive.








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By: micro in 6TH POPE
Tue, 11 Jan 22 6:13 PM 		Msg. 28444 of 60008

It was my understanding that as each new variant appears it is weaker and has less effects on people than the preceding one thus over time the virus is almost of none effect.

So why would a new variant be something to worry about?

Kinda a tad cornfusing to me.. Or is this just more universal fear mongering to keep the Sheeple obedient and under contral?

TIA

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