Covid has mutated…
It is clear we are now dealing with a virus that spreads far more easily – probably more than twice as easily – as the version that emerged in Wuhan at the end of 2019.
The Alpha variant, first identified in Kent, UK, performed a large jump in its ability to transmit. Now Delta, seen first in India, leapt further still.
This is evolution in action.
Precisely. The principle outlined by Charles Darwin is doing precisely what anyone with half a brain cell could have anticipated. It becomes more transmissible and less virulent. We are now in the endemic stage. As time goes on, it will simply become another background winter respiratory bug.
Time to live with it and move on.
It’s worth remembering the journey this virus is on. It has made the jump from infecting a completely different species – its closest relatives are in bats – to us. It’s like you, starting a new job: you’re competent, but not the finished article. The first variant was good enough to start a devastating pandemic, but now it’s learning on the job.
It’s not learning anything. It isn’t sentient. FFS, this is the level of patronising drivel we have reached.
“This virus has surprised us a lot. It is beyond anything we feared,” said Dr Aris Katzourakis, who studies viral evolution at the University of Oxford. “The fact it has happened twice in 18 months, two lineages (Alpha and then Delta) each 50% more transmissible is a phenomenal amount of change.”
I’m not a virologist, I merely studied biology at A level and otherwise have observed life as I’ve lived. A year ago, I was making this prediction, so why the experts are surprised is itself surprising. This is what RNA viruses do after all.
Truly we have entered idiocracy.
Clearly these so called scientists weren’t paying attention in biology class when amoebae, Escherichia Coli, viruses and algea was being taught.
Dr Aris Katzourakis studies viral evolution yet is surprised when a virus evolves in the normal way? That is a little hard to believe isn’t it. I wonder if there could be a more plausible explanation for him coming out with this crap?
Dear Mr Longrider
Another reason for the indecent haste in rolling out untested vaccines was to be able to claim ‘success’ for vaccination for the entirely natural drop off in cases and deaths.
Dr Mike Yeadon pointed out we could call the Kent variant a ‘vaccine’.
DP
It is said by people who know what they talk about, that the lockdowns have effectively made matters worse in terms of variants.
It beggars belief that people still think the “vaccine” is effective when allegedly more than 50% of the population has had it, most of whom were not at risk to start with, yet still clamour for more lockdowns. The cognitive dissonance in their heads must be something to behold.
“It’s not learning anything. It isn’t sentient. FFS, this is the level of patronising drivel we have reached.”
Steady on LR, we all know that this virus is a fast learner. Even a year ago when in its infancy, it could already read a tape measure and tell the time. It also listened to Witless & Co. and stayed away from BLM protests.
Okay, I concede that you have a point. It certainly has more intelligence than the combined brain power of SAGE…
Sage:
Adjective.
Wise, especially as a result of great experience.
Some mistake surely.
Shocking Theresa May makes some good points on this: https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/theresa-may-one-year-on-we-are-no-further-forward-
Yes, she is spot on this time.