Omicron, designated as a variant of concern (VOC) by the World Health Organization, has all but pushed delta to the side, at least as far as sequencing efforts in the U.S. are suggesting. But viruses are constantly mutating, and a widespread virus — like the one that causes COVID-19 — has a better chance of gradually evolving from host to host and producing concerning variants.
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19 days till the next covid-19 variant: ValentineVariant, followed five weeks later by the SaintPatrickVariant.
ReplyDeleteWho cares about the next COVID variant, I am concerned about the next contagious disease those monkeys that crashed in Pennsylvania's Montour County released on January 21.
ReplyDeleteNobody cares.....
ReplyDeleteNext variant Decepticon.
ReplyDeleteThey will never stop this. The people have to stop it and unformtunately, we're surrounding by some seriously stupid.
Yawn, wake me when we get to the Zs
ReplyDeleteJD
Pretty sure the next variant will be released....from a lab....just like it's predecessors. They aren't going to let this Plannedemic end. It's been far too
ReplyDeleteuseful for them. And eventually they are likely to come up with one that is actually
dangerous.
Notice how the old variants magically disappear the moment a new variant is proclaimed.
ReplyDeleteDon't think so. I came down with chinkflu late December and it took a month to fully recover. Still can't smell my facts, which is a plus. Lost 20 pounds, which I could I'll afford.
DeleteHey Kenny;
ReplyDeleteGotta keep the "Fear Porn" going and the people scared shitless and not questioning "Their Betters"
I am sick of that 'buzzword', "variant". I have a degree in Microbiology and all through university I never heard that buzzword. I wish it would just go away so we all could just go back to catching colds.
ReplyDeleteFrom the beginning, they said it would come in waves.
ReplyDeleteEach wave is a new mutation.
Each mutation is more infectious, but less deadly. That's how viruses evolve.
You can see this by comparing infections vs deaths over time:
https://usafacts.org/visualizations/coronavirus-covid-19-spread-map
I glance at the numbers for my county occasionally, but other than that I never really think about Covid.
Anyone remember being told that flu shots were only ___% effective because they were made from last year's virus? That a new strain could have developed and the shot wouldn't work on that?
ReplyDeleteSo why does half the country have their hair on fire about a new strain of what is effectively, a fucking cold?
Kill your GD TV. It's stampeding people into permitting an experimental drug to be injected repeatedly into their bodies. What part of, it didn't work the first 3 times so let's inject THE SAME FUCKING THING once more because this time, it's for sure, makes any motherfucking sense????