Viruses are God’s way of pushing physiological changes in our genetics to improve and strengthen us. It works for 99.9 percent of us without major problems.
What ever happened to Fauci’s you only need to wear masks to stop the hospital surge? It is a virus, much like the common cold. We are never going to stop it from being spread. We can easily strengthen our immune system and bodies to be ready to keep the virus from going into overload and causing pneumonia. Why aren’t the so called government health organizations concerned and simply instructing us on how to strengthen our immune systems.
To some it is obviously more about the money and power!
Or as PT Barnum would say…”There is a sucker born every minute” I can picture Fauci in front of a tent selling opium in a bottle.
Viruses are not our enemies
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I can name 20-30 virus off the top of my head right now, that are alive & well, living amongst us to this day – & deadlier. But you don’t see most of us freaking the fuk out in the way that we are carrying on like with this COVID-19, why is that?
It’s because of good marketing.
Here’s my point: viruses are not our enemies. Actually they’re our allies that help us evolve & get stronger as people.
Without viruses, our immune systems wouldn’t have any resistance with which to workout. Think of viruses as good workout partners. In fact, we need each other in order to survive. We need them as much as they need us.
Without people who are fertile ground for viruses to inhabit, they literally have no home in which to reside. Things like weakened immune systems, being overweight, malnutrition, decreased protein (Kwashiorkor), excessive sugar consumption, increased acidity, decreased fiber & fearful thinking are some environments viruses thrive on.
Conversely, we need viruses in order to build our immune systems so we can continue to grow & develop as a species. It’s survival of the fittest. That’s how we find out who will represent future generations … the ones who figure out how to adapt & improvise while experiencing all sorts of viruses & pandemics along the way.
Let this post serve as a mental adjustment instead of a physical one. Allow this to shift your relationship with viruses in a powerful way.
When we adjust our relationships to viruses, our nervous system literally shifts in the way it behaves. By simply shifting your thinking about viruses to them being an ally rather than an enemy, our nervous system response shifts from fear (which they thrive on) to respect.
Don’t get me wrong, just because viruses are our allies, does not mean they are to be disrespected. Quite the contrary: they are to be treated with the utmost respect, worthy of being studied in order to understand their particular tendencies, for which we can then account for.
Like anything in life, including with viruses, when you adjust your relationship to it, you begin to notice that thing starts to change.
Why viruses mutate and why they are not our enemy
The World According To von Roy
And why we should be concerned, yet not panic, about the omicron varian
The news out of South Africa is concerning, as well as the recent reports that this variant may have already spread to other countries. But let’s put this whole thing into perspective, shall we?
If you have been following my writing you will be well aware that stress and panic are not good states to be in for our immune system to be functioning optimally, especially during a pandemic. So let’s all take a deep breath, calm down and learn some immunology.
At the time of me writing this, there have been less than 300 confirmed cases worldwide, 99% of them in South Africa. This number is small compared to the 600 000 cases we detect worldwide per day. It equals roughly about 0.01%.
What do we mean by confirmed?
Well, quick PCR tests reveal whether or not there has been a general mutation in the virus’ receptor binding domain (see below for more detail) - the spike protein, whole genome sequencing tells us if this mutation is of significance. And this type of genetic sequencing and analysis can take anywhere between 24-48 hours. To be able to determine whether or not this viral variant will be able to evade our primed immune response (from the vaccine) will take anywhere between 14 days to 3 weeks.
Every virologist I have read shows slight concern but they also realise that nothing has been proven yet, not the changes in symptom modality nor the mutations.
EVERYTHING is speculation at the moment and the public health authorities are erring on the side of caution.
The scientists who are working on this pandemic have a relative understanding of this, the media and the public do not. As such it is the duty of scientists and public health officials to calm rather than panic the public. It is a little bit irresponsible how this news has spread around the world like wildfire, to an already primed and anxious collective nervous system.
What did Franklin Delano Roosevelt say again:
All we have to fear, is fear itself
Viruses want to survive
Let’s roll all of this back a little bit.
Viruses want to live. Like all life on Earth, that is their prerogative. They need us to live, for them to live. It is not in a virus's best interest to kill its host. If it kills its host, it kills its means to replicate and survive. Not a very good evolutionary strategy.
Some of the most successful viruses on the planet have found a way to evade the immune system and live in their hosts indefinitely, an example of this in humans is the herpes family of viruses.
Through sophisticated techniques of inhibiting certain immune triggers, herpes has managed to live within our system as though it were one of our own cells, only replicating and “flaring” up occasionally, especially when our whole system is stressed and our immune system acts out of synch as a result.
Mutations aren’t meant to happen, and covid is slow
Mutations are mistakes and don't happen as frequently in covid as other viruses.
Covid has a proofreading mechanism most other viruses don’t possess. It mutates at a rate four times slower than influenza. It is a single stranded RNA virus, whereas influenza has 4 strands.
Again, this is the way DNA is transcribed into an enzyme:
DNA → RNA → AMINO ACIDS → PEPTIDE → PROTEIN → ENZYME
There are 29 881 RNA nucleotide bases that encode 9860 amino acids, which in turn encode a variety of peptides. The receptor domain known as “S” (or “spike”) is 1273 amino acid sequences in length. It is this S receptor-binding domain that binds to angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE-2,) expressed on human cells. So far there have been 32 “suspected” mutations (again not all of them have been confirmed as statistically significant in all cases of the partially confirmed “omicron” sightings.)
There is a fine line between mutation and viability, as in, the virus still functioning properly - most mutations result in the virus not getting assembled properly and dying (vast majority in fact.)
In the case of omicron, out of 29 881 base pairs, 32 base pairs have switched and resulted in a newly mutated variant that can replicate and still survive. In the grand scheme of things, that is not a whole lot - 0.001% of the entire virus.
By no means does this mean that the existing vaccine coverage conferred to our immune system will not work and that this mutated version will evade our already primed immune response. In fact, our immune system is so sophisticated that it can often create new binding domains if the variations of what is presented to them is not too different to the original.
Here it is important to understand the difference between two basic concepts in evolutionary biology.