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Opinions or Facts?
> It has to do with RNA
sequencing.... i.e. genetics.
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> Seasonal flu is an “all
human virus”. The DNA/RNA chains that make up the virus are recognized by
the human immune system. This means that your body has some immunity to
it before it comes around each year... you get immunity two
ways...through exposure to a virus, or by getting a flu shot.
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> Novel viruses, come from
animals.... the WHO tracks novel viruses in animals, (sometimes for years
watching for mutations). Usually these viruses only transfer from animal to
animal (pigs in the case of H1N1) (birds in the case of the Spanish flu).
But once, one of these animal viruses mutates, and starts to transfer from
animals to humans... then it’s a problem, Why? Because we have no natural
or acquired immunity.. the RNA sequencing of the genes inside the virus isn’t
human, and the human immune system doesn’t recognize it so, we can’t fight it
off.
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> Now.... sometimes, the
mutation only allows transfer from animal to human, for years it’s only
transmission is from an infected animal to a human before it finally mutates so
that it can now transfer human to human... once that happens..we have a new
contagion phase. And depending on the fashion of this new mutation, thats
what decides how contagious, or how deadly it’s gonna be..
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> H1N1 was deadly....but
it did not mutate in a way that was as deadly as the Spanish flu. It’s RNA was
slower to mutate and it attacked its host differently, too.
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> Fast forward.
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> Now, here comes this
Coronavirus... it existed in animals only, for nobody knows how long...but one
day, at an animal market, in Wuhan China, in December 2019, it mutated and made
the jump from animal to people. At first, only animals could give it to a
person... But here is the scary part.... in just TWO WEEKS it mutated again and
gained the ability to jump from human to human. Scientists call this
quick ability, “slippery”
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> This Coronavirus, not
being in any form a “human” virus (whereas we would all have some natural or
acquired immunity). Took off like a rocket. And this was because, Humans
have no known immunity...doctors have no known medicines for it.
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> And it just so happens
that this particular mutated animal virus, changed itself in such a way the way
that it causes great damage to human lungs..
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> That’s why Coronavirus
is different from seasonal flu, or H1N1 or any other type of
influenza.... this one is slippery AF. And it’s a lung eater...And,
it’s already mutated AGAIN, so that we now have
two strains to deal with, strain s, and strain L ....which makes it twice as
hard to develop a vaccine.
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> We really have no tools
in our shed, with this. History has shown that fast and immediate
closings of public places has helped in the past pandemics. Philadelphia and Baltimore
were reluctant to close events in 1918 and they were the hardest hit in the US during the
Spanish Flu.
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> Factoid: Henry
VIII stayed in his room and allowed no one near him, till the Black Plague
passed. Just like us, he had no tools in
his shed, except social isolation...
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