@Frank Apisa,
we stand at an intresting cornr of civilization. We are at a point hre we can actually control much of our environmental inputs and yet we still maintain an almost Stone Age mentality towards medical and biological exeprtise. ( I considr my john deere Tractor Mechanic a genius in his fild and I do whatever h says because he knows more about my tractors and when theyre needed and what will wait another cutting or not-Yt he thinks medicine , and all this scaring people--is just a scam)
epidemiologists have pretty much been able to have people understand what "Herd Immunity" means, yet many many people, (IMHO politically driven) wont lift a fingr in the march to achieve it.
I actully am fearful that, until w can slow or eradicate the virus, e will see more mutations gone wild, will see LGT cause mutations from other SARs strains and diseases may be abl to link to make a "Suprbug cluster" that could create non- apoptatic strains of viral syndemic - diseases that may show us all how close to extinction we can come.
we act like we know so much yet this pandemic is showing us how much we still must learn.
we aint done with this bug no matter what max is trying to preach.
if everybody were magically vaccinated tomorrow so that the only zoonotic storage bins remaining were livestock and pets, wed still be in a mess sweeping up the mutant strains that pop up and hoping that we dont have to make another "Operation Warp Speed"(you realize that, w test th **** out of xisting vaccins to see whether the new variants are immune to the Moderna or Pfizer, or Sinovax, or "Sputnik Tsemlee"--or whethr those vaccines still even work)
This thing has got billions of people in some real close quarters creating the world's largest Petri Dish. W need to think o this as a full-on war and stop acting like Trumps early pronouncements about how "in some warm spring dayCovid would magically be gone"
OBVIOUSLY HE WAS FULLA **** WASNT HE . I hope we choose to keep reading Epidemiology Journals and other stuff so we can factually can tell you, that the pros in this field , arrent panicking anymore than a pilot with a flame out in his 737 is panicking, were all passengers here, The bestsource in which you could learn about zoonotic diseses is the popular book by David Quammen written about 6 yars before 2019m but he wisely predicted stuff like this could rise episodically and wipe out large chunks of the urban world.
"Spanish Flu" has been stuudied from samples of recent minor occurences compared to samples taken from xhumed victim tissues from 1918 through 1924 and these were unremarkably the same. Covid 19 however has gone through 5 mutation sequences ( mutations have variants) sort of "subspecies"
Yet weve got un vaccinated profesionals who should know better but, for several reasons, rfuse to do anything to protct themselves or to assist in taking part helping our species hit herd immunity.
And here w are actually debating whether this disease is a very serious problem that could potentially be disastrous. All e have to do is follow a calwndar an disease reports that occur fter events, I know a husban and wif who drov their Hrlys out to Sturgis . They both cam down with covid and the husband, in his 50;s died. He pooh poohed it too. We talked last pring and he told me they were gonna do Sturgis cause it wasnt really serious anymore, I said I dont agree and hes merely gonna be playing Russian Roulette , not everybody dies in russian roulette but its a guarantee the all buut1 will die if they dont stop the game.
i used to bitch about Mandelbrot equations in possible crystal structure predictions and the more I bitched, the more I saw how natural selection, time effects, and dumb luck is a reality.
As Robt Raup the paleo extinction researcher always said."NATURE BATS LAST"
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