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Danish Covid-19 mink variant could spark new pandemic

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16 pointscolinprince7 comments

It is reason of concern, but the press really likes to blow things out of proportion.

Some better reasoned sanity here: https://www.reddit.com/r/COVID19/comments/jo2muy/mink_and_co...

The Guardian are most definitely in the corona doomer category. Always highlighting the negative and ignoring the positive. I guess it gets them more clicks.

'Preliminary studies suggest that this virus exhibits decreased susceptibility to neutralizing antibodies from several people with a history of infection.'

In the thread I linked there should be the exact figures. Vaccines target the whole spike protein (most of them, at least) so it's likely not going to be a problem. It may be for monoclonal antibodies.

My first thoughts upon this was what benefits as an individual do I have in knowing this and for me the answer is none and I suspect for many it will be detrimental as will only raise anxiety related stress and that is just no good for the immune system.

But I find that to be the case with much of the news today and wonder if it is the news that has changed or how I see the news from a deeper perspective as I get older.

I've tried to stop reading news that I have no control over influencing. It's not apathy, I care deeply for many tragedies, but there is only so much emotional investment that can be split between the worlds many shortfalls, majeures, catastrophes, atrocities... I think sometimes that approach has been mistaken for sociopathy, when it's really not that I don't care, but that it would be worse for my wellbeing if I did.

- https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-54818615 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QvvMDw6YQw

I wrote to Sen. Wyden regarding this potential issue. Wanted to share it here as well. I believe this is relevant as it could push recovery back further if ignored. Please see Dr. John Campbells video explaining potential effects if you'd like to learn more.

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