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Omicron is a cunning foe whose manifest destiny has unfolded before us in the crucible of the human body. A kind of hyper-speed Darwinian evolution has rendered it supremely able to infect, though less able to kill. It has learned from us how to optimize itself for maximum fitness. It is now able to partially side-step our cavalry, but that cavalry is more important than ever.

Science!

This retard never heard of herd immunity.

9 posted on 01/31/2022 10:08:04 AM PST by Sirius Lee (They intend to murder us. Prep if you want to live and live like you are prepping for eternal life)
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To: Sirius Lee

He may never have heard of herd immunity but he is well-schooled in drama and hyperbole.

This guy was so proud of his writing that he had to print it and frame it so he could see it all the time


37 posted on 01/31/2022 11:07:46 AM PST by ChildOfThe60s ( If you can remember the 60s.....you weren't really there..)
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To: Sirius Lee
A kind of hyper-speed Darwinian evolution has rendered it supremely able to infect, though less able to kill. It has learned from us how to optimize itself for maximum fitness.

That is a well crafted sentence intended to push the author's point of view but it has literally no evidence to support it, and is actually "misinformation" since it is exactly the opposite of what the published scientific papers say.

The Omicron variant of COVID is not a recent mutation from one of the other common COVID variants like Delta. It's relationship to the family tree of COVID-19 variants indicates that it is an older COVID variant, perhaps 18 months or more old.

There is no such thing as "hyper-speed Darwinian evolution". Evolution for any virus, bacteria, mammal, bird, fish or insect has rates determined by outside factors, the virus can't change that rate, but a lab technician can.

Omicron, like other organisms, has some indications of the environment it evolved in. That data indicates that Omicron most likely evolved in mice, not in human beings. That doesn't establish whether the mice were wild mice infected by humans, or mice who had the virus themselves from nature, or mice that lived in a laboratory.

Omicron is not "a cunning foe" it is just a virus. We would all be better off if the family of COVID-19 viruses it is a part of had never been allowed to leave Wuhan, but we can't re-do history. Of course we could ask why a "cunning foe" chose to allow infected people to leave Wuhan China for destinations outside of China, but did not allow people to leave Wuhan for destinations in China.

43 posted on 01/31/2022 11:28:35 AM PST by freeandfreezing
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