Why a Highly Mutated Coronavirus Variant Has Scientists on Alert
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The worst thing is that we don't make a dent when everybody want to live their (shorter) lives without doing the necessary to prevent mutation. This is the most contagious virus known to science now and each new variant becomes better. Okay, it's mortality is less, but isn't it because we all got immune? Just pray this doesn't suddenly reinvent the mortality of SARS or MERS - they it will be the end of the human civilization as we proved we're stupid and self-entitled!
I get it - many people have returned to pre-pandemic behavior (I'd hoped we'd at least keep masking when sick with anything) but this type of comment is certainly not going to win hearts and change opinions.
After all, the entire length of a single COVID virus is only 70-90nm long.
What was the manufacturer-rated N95 stopping power of particle size again? 95% at 300nm! And it quickly goes south after that.
Also, because of ANY sufficiently virial load, the water droplets are even smaller.
Don't try and pull that nonsense of a human breathing action having cause a Brownian Motion to being able to catch even smaller particles because all cited papers mention unnatural atmospheric pressure (1800 mbar) to achieve this kind of filtering.
So, superiority complex, indeed.
Might as well wear a simple cloth mask. :-/
Second link also has zero “actionable” citation and scarily so, has a paltry 84 citations-by. Making this actionless, “citation-free” paper an even terrible source.
Sole reference: https://www.pnas.org/syndication/doi/10.1073/pnas.2110117118
It was actually a really cool story when this happened during the pandemic. The original inventor of the current n95 mask production technique came out of retirement to help out.
Too bad that the whitepaper's test sensors only works on particles greater than 300nm.
But it does rejuvenate the mask for another working day and alleviate N95 mask shortages.
But does not measure for virus-sized water-based particles.
Maybe Van der Wahl force.
https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/1_Petty_N...
They're OK, but don't fit my face as well as the 3M-brand N95s I usually buy (8511s).
What difference does it make whether you, in particular, isolate yourself or not? My point still stands. I'm not judging your "privileges", I'm not even judging your holier-than-thou attitude and covert authoritarianism - I'm just stating my stance on the issue.
Thew new age liberalism sooner or later imminently leads to an apocalypse - individualism is doomed.
When everybody's self-centered, everybody does - that's without a doubt.
This was an engineered virus and it's just the beginning. It's so easy to create a new virus and spread it and with people who don't care about anything else but dining out with friends will make it spread within days around the globe.
Should the public be concerned about BA.2.86?
“I don’t think anybody needs to be alarmed by this,” stresses Bloom. “The most likely scenario is that this variant fizzles out, and in a month nobody other than people like me even remember that it existed.”
What is the official source? And what does that have to do with covid variants?
In this thread I have provided a clip of the undersecretary of state claiming under oath, in congress, that these biolabs exist and she is very worried about Russians gaining access to the contents of them.
> what does that have to do with covid variants?
Here is some similar research conducted by the people behind the Ukrainian biolabs but in China: https://thebulletin.org/2022/08/nih-to-terminate-ecohealth-a...
Your source has fallen for Russian propaganda the very premise that the article is based on is false.
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2022/jun/15/blog-posti...
You know, just like the "other side" is doing it.
Well I just read the source material as well, and even the headline is wrong in the article you posted.
> https://media.defense.gov/2022/Mar/11/2002954612/-1/-1/0/FAC...
The DOD provides partial funding the labs they don't run them.
If you want to know more about the situation I suggest you read the source and some good articles on the topic like this one.
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-polit...
You do realise that the overwhelming bulk of biological research labs do mundane work that's dull and boring?
That's also why they have been fully transparent and declassified what they were working on there.
What they didn't do is claim its "Russian propaganda" to claim these labs exist at all, because that would be the act of a guilty person.
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