Utter nonsense peddled as ‘news’

Well. There is a new variant of Covid. I suppose some are surprised by this. I’m not. It’s a single strand RNA virus and massively prone to errors in replication and damage to its genetics by simple things like sunlight. You’ll get several hundred variants with every single infection.

Most of those will be nonviable, meaning they might be able to get into a cell but their RNA is so mutated it can’t produce new viruses. A few will produce nasty versions, a few will produce mild versions of the illness and if it’s really lucky, some will infect and produce no symptoms at all.

That is the ultimate aim of any parasitic organism. To mutate into a form that causes no ill effects to the host at all so the host doesn’t even know it’s there. A parasite that kills its host will die when the host dies and cannot spread further. A parasite that the host doesn’t even notice will be able to spread wildly and will live as long as the host lives. The perfect parasite integrates itself into host DNA so it reproduces when the host reproduces and effectively lives forever while doing nothing at all. A sort of politician parasite. There are likely to be several of these in every animal’s DNA already.

So, we are now to be scared of the ‘highly contagious Pirola variant‘ that is so mutated you’ll need to get yet another shot of mRNA death juice because the seventeen or so jabs you’ve had won’t protect you. Look at the symptoms. This virus is doing what they all do. It’s become a bloody cold. Seeing much of SARS or MERS or swine flu or bird flu lately? Of course not. They’ve joined the ranks of hundreds of viruses that have become just a cold or mild flu.

Typically viruses become more deadly with every mutation to give them the best chance of survival.

This is not a mistake. This is an outright lie. Becoming more deadly does not give any parasite, including a virus, any hope at all of survival. The ideal parasite causes no problem for the host at all. The deadly ones kill their host before they can spread far and result in containment of infected individuals. The milder they get, the better they spread and the less the host animal does to stop them.

You get Ebola, you get isolated and the virus has nowhere to go. It kills you, it dies too. You get a bit of a sniffle, you don’t feel great but you take an aspirin and get on with life. The cold virus spreads like wildfire. It’s an inconvenience, nothing more. Some viruses, like Ebola, don’t mutate fast enough to join the ranks of colds but all the coronaviruses do, and they can do it within a few months because their rate of mutation is very fast indeed. Basically, Covid was all over by the end of 2020. It’s really only politics and profit that keeps it going now.

Oh, and idiots. Can’t forget those.

It does not work on rational thought. Viruses are not capable of that. They have no brain, no nervous system, they are not even intact cells. They do not reason.

Bacteria are alive. They consume food for energy, they reproduce, they excrete waste and they can even, at a very basic chemical level, communicate with each other (quorum sensing, I might lecture on that one day).

Viruses do nothing. Nothing at all. When they are intact viruses it’s questionable whether they can be even considered alive. They only reproduce within another cell, using the cell’s metabolism for their reproduction. When they do that they are not intact viruses. The protein coat is gone, just the genetic material is left.

Why do they mutate into colds? It’s not a decision.The nasty variants would confine you to bed for a week or two. They won’t be able to spread far because you won’t feel like leaving your house. The mild variants will make you feel a bit grubby but you’ll still go to work and to the shops.

So the mild one spreads fast, the nasty one doesn’t. You get the mild one and you’re now immune to the nasty one. The nasty one dies out and the mild one takes over. This is why we have about 400 cold viruses. They were all, once, nasty bastards. Now they are just a nuisance.

Covid has already done this. It’s a bad cold or mild flu now. It’s gone, it’s all over. And yet people are still terrified of it even though there are far nastier diseases still out there. They are all ignored now. The Dreadful Cold is the disease of our times. Only 99.9% of us will survive this horror.

Unfortunately I think at least 50% will welcome the return of all the coming restrictions, all of which have been proven to be ineffective and have been shown to do more harm than good.

They just like to be scared.