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Strain B1.1.529
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<blockquote data-quote="Goweresque" data-source="post: 7859457" data-attributes="member: 818"><p>Evolution doesn't create the variants, it just selects the ones that get thrown up by random chance that are best adapted to the new environment. The vaccines have changed the environment, so evolution picks the variants best suited to the new normal. A variant with extra ability to evade the vaccines that arises in a low vaccinated country may not be overly successful there, but if it escapes to a high vaccinated one it can rapidly become the dominant strain.</p><p></p><p>Thats the problem, the viruses are incredibly fast moving and our defences are relatively slow. We are still jabbing people with a vaccine based on the original Wuhan strain of covid, we've already had 4 different significant strains since this whole thing started less that 2 years ago. And the last of those, Delta, has obvious ability to evade the vaccines, hence why cases are still high in highly vaccinated countries. We now face another version potentially even more infectious and better able to evade vaccines. By the time a booster based on the O variant is developed, produced and jabbed in arms to any significant degree the virus will have moved on and we'll be facing the same scenario all over again, with the Omega variant by then no doubt. </p><p></p><p>There literally is no end to this process. The virus is now endemic, like the flu virus, it will never be eliminated, thats physically impossible as it has significant infection reserves in various animals. You cannot vaccinate your way out of a coronavirus epidemic, everyone will have to get it multiple times in their life, and just like flu, it may very well kill them eventually. The best solution is not to try to prevent people getting it, its to work on cures to keep them alive once they do get it. That is the way out, not a never ending vaccination process and some sort of Twilight Zone of eternal lockdowns and other social controls.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Goweresque, post: 7859457, member: 818"] Evolution doesn't create the variants, it just selects the ones that get thrown up by random chance that are best adapted to the new environment. The vaccines have changed the environment, so evolution picks the variants best suited to the new normal. A variant with extra ability to evade the vaccines that arises in a low vaccinated country may not be overly successful there, but if it escapes to a high vaccinated one it can rapidly become the dominant strain. Thats the problem, the viruses are incredibly fast moving and our defences are relatively slow. We are still jabbing people with a vaccine based on the original Wuhan strain of covid, we've already had 4 different significant strains since this whole thing started less that 2 years ago. And the last of those, Delta, has obvious ability to evade the vaccines, hence why cases are still high in highly vaccinated countries. We now face another version potentially even more infectious and better able to evade vaccines. By the time a booster based on the O variant is developed, produced and jabbed in arms to any significant degree the virus will have moved on and we'll be facing the same scenario all over again, with the Omega variant by then no doubt. There literally is no end to this process. The virus is now endemic, like the flu virus, it will never be eliminated, thats physically impossible as it has significant infection reserves in various animals. You cannot vaccinate your way out of a coronavirus epidemic, everyone will have to get it multiple times in their life, and just like flu, it may very well kill them eventually. The best solution is not to try to prevent people getting it, its to work on cures to keep them alive once they do get it. That is the way out, not a never ending vaccination process and some sort of Twilight Zone of eternal lockdowns and other social controls. [/QUOTE]
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