thx for the post: two comments:
really like ‘Spectator Australia’ for hard news, especially down there.
and i think the esteemed author’s sentence containing ‘... the SARS viruses are subject to immunological imprinting: that is, once they have seen a vaccine...’
sounds like he’s saying the virus is seeing the vaccine, which i think is incorrect. i think the use of ‘they’ is a bit awkward or confused. it shouldn’t be a pronoun read as viruses, it should refer to the immune system’s response to the virus or jab. ‘...that is, once the immune system has seen a vaccine...’ that comports better with my understanding of imprinting, antigenic sin, and ADE or anti-bodies that actually help or husband the infection, whether from a subsequent rogue jab or from another SARS variant (including the bio-weapon spiked varieties). hope that makes some sense.
Since we call everything else a “she” (like boats, ships, cars, houses, etc..), then we should call them “she” too...