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4/8/2020 10:56:35 AM
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The coronavirus may never go away
I’ve been listening to Bret Weinstein’s (an evolutionary biologist) podcast, and naturally the big subject of late has been the virus. He and others have hypothesized that it could be similar to the flu or the common cold, and that we’ll have no choice but to learn how to live with it... as we have had to do with the flu and the common cold. Let’s hope that’s not the case.
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9 RepliesWhen they roll out a vaccine it won’t be a problem. Hard to kill every last bit of it tho
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The conspiracy theorist in me makes me wonder if this is a convenient prelude to martial law
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3 RepliesIt'll go away once we investigate Wuhan and take the vaccine from China
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12 RepliesThis goes to show how fruitless the attempts to shut everything down for
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I have heard that they might be testing a cow and pig treatment for an earlier version of covid on covid-19. Yes cattle and pigs have had a problem with covid for years. Although, I do question the source a little. Until I know if there is any credibility to it, I won't go any further than this.
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9 RepliesEvolution is a door that swings both ways. Part of the reason why the virus is so lethal is because its a virus that isn't normally a human pathogen....IOW one that naturally makes us sick. So we have developed no immunity to it. But overtime, the presence of the virus will pressure us to develop that immunity. Either naturally (at least 20-25% of those who contract the virus aren't not made ill by it....asymptomatic carriers)...or artifically through the use of vaccines. Infectious disease is always a race between measures and counter-measures. That race is always ongoing. But also, this virus has yet to demonstrate that it has any staying power. That it can find somewhere to "hide out" in-between outbreaks. Even if it does this, its virulence will likely decrease over time as immunity/resistance to it grows in the human population. IOW, we're seeing the peak of this virus' deadliness...and that will *gradually* decrease over time. The real issue here isn't to be terrified of this virus in the long term....but to learn the lessons that our vulnerability to this kind of pandemic outbreak has shown. There was no global mechanism to keep this virus from spreading....and our national response has been slow and piecemeal.
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We have lived with it for a good number of years. From what I remember the virus was discovered in animals about 90 years ago and in humans about 60 years ago. What we have now is another strain of the virus with bats as the likely source. The worrying part with this version is that there is a theory that some scientist were messing around with the virus with a bunch of captured bats. Alternatively it's from bat soup or an American Soldier who was in China near the end of last year if you want to believe China.
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It wasn't a known virus to humans until very recently. Like all viruses, it is more likely to become the next 'flu' virus that is part of the normal repertoire of bugs that can invade annually, and just another one that is in the line to be immunized for. Right now everyone is behind because it's "new". I'm not expecting it to be the global world ender, or anymore than a historical medical anomaly that it has spread like it has. I still have a feeling that we're not getting the actual corona related death numbers, and they are giving corona the knock out number to many who were already dying of other ailments. Corona may have just finished the task a little sooner, but the same result would have happened regardless. Had these individuals not already been ill or immune compromised, would they have survived this? That type of stuff.
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So... Now we have the Herps?? 😖
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1 ReplyOnce we have vaccines it won't be nearly as bad. Herd immunity will build over time as well.
