Delta, delta, delta, can I help ya, help ya, help ya? Is this variant more lethal or serious than the original virus?

American Thinker ^ | 07/16/2021 | Terry Paulding

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Last night, the 11 PM CBS local newscast interviewed an apparently healthy, fit-looking man. He seemed to be in his mid-30s, and the thrust of the interview was that he’d gotten the COVID Delta variant, so we all better hurry and get vaccinated if we haven’t already. I must admit, I was half asleep when it came on, but I couldn’t help wondering if he’d actually been sick. Nobody asked, nor did the guy mention symptoms. It was all about the inconvenience of having to isolate himself from his kids, plus he had to miss a family reunion.

Earlier, at the gym, where 30 or so big TV screens near the ceiling entertain exercisers, I happened to be on the rowing machine in front of CNN. It’s a station I rarely watch, but I paid a bit of attention when they had a doctor on, in his scrubs, talking about the “alarming number of new cases” of the Delta variant. The case rate is indeed up and, while what I read about it varies, at least one source claims that Delta accounts for 50% of all US COVID cases at this point. So, when I got home, I looked up a few things. For one, the case and death statistics.

I was not at all surprised to find that in the USA, the 7-day average of deaths “from COVID” was 266 per day. Note that there is no separation between Alpha (the original) and Delta within this set of stats. Ever since the two local counties, Alameda and Santa Clara, audited their own statistics and found a respective 25% and 22% exaggeration of the numbers, I assume that kind of exaggeration applies across the board to all COVID death stats.

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RE: Viruses are not alive. They don’t die. They don’t survive.

Yes, but they do MUTATE and the NATURE of such mutation is to infect living hosts, and that’s where Mueller’s Ratchet comes in.

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If the symptoms of Delta are like the common cold, would getting it provide antibodies that might prevent our getting a worse variant, say, the original, Alpha one? Seems like an important question to me. Maybe an honest medical professional can answer it for all of us.

Good question and in this age of pseudoscience, good luck getting an honest answer.