{"id":98577,"date":"2020-04-19T11:00:04","date_gmt":"2020-04-19T15:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=98577"},"modified":"2020-04-19T10:35:23","modified_gmt":"2020-04-19T14:35:23","slug":"98577","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=98577","title":{"rendered":"Some Updates For You"},"content":{"rendered":"

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You may enjoy reading this study by a bunch of eggheads. They want us all to stay six feet apart because COVID!!!! is going to disrupt everything, whether or not there is an antidote developed (and several seem promising) and a vaccine (which is under development now).\u00a0 https:\/\/science.sciencemag.org\/content\/early\/2020\/04\/14\/science.abb5793.full<\/a><\/p>\n

That this article was published after the CV19 bug hit, and all those ideas were already in place, is ironic, but let’s let that go.<\/p>\n

I read the “Abstract” section first and found that it ignored all the work being done now to bitch-slap the COVID-19 virus into submission.\u00a0 They ignore the simple fact that the flu bug going around every fall is not the same as the prior autumn’s flu bug, and that’s the reason we have to get yearly flu shots!!!!!\u00a0 Perhaps our own SARCs and HMs may have some special things to say about this, too.<\/p>\n

What is even more interesting is the effort that went into finding the source of the 1918 Spanish flu, which killed over a million people during its progression through the human population. This involved getting tissue samples from people who died back then, some of whom were buried in permafrost and were perfectly preserved. The Spanish flu was a primitive H1N1 flu virus that was able to shift antigens and invade other hosts such as hogs and the human population. When the swine flu came up in 2005, and subsequent to that, bird flu struck in 2009, those tissue samples led right back to the more primitive H1N1 bug.<\/p>\n

This article from CDC relates the effort to find the source of the 1918 “Spanish” flu, which turned out to be a rather primitive flu that could shift to invade and infect any host.\u00a0https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/flu\/pandemic-resources\/reconstruction-1918-virus.html<\/a><\/p>\n

The irony is in this paragraph, toward the end of that article:\u00a0\u00a0If a severe pandemic, such as occurred in 1918 happened today, it would still likely overwhelm health care infrastructure, both in the United States and across the world. Hospitals and doctors\u2019 offices would struggle to meet demand from the number of patients requiring care. Such an event would require significant increases in the manufacture, distribution and supply of medications, products and life-saving medical equipment, such as mechanical ventilators. Businesses and schools would struggle to function, and even basic services like trash pickup and waste removal could be impacted. – article<\/p>\n

“Still likely overwhelm the health care system…” You kind of have to ask, why, when both swine flu and avian flu hit us, we weren’t prepared then and why we weren’t prepared for the current invasion of an aggressive microscopic bug?\u00a0 Are we just going to slouch along, assuming that we’re invulnerable and nothing will plague us, just because we’re us?<\/p>\n

Well, somewhere out in the wild there is a pocket of smallpox or something similar, just waiting to be picked up by some explorer and brought back to a population that has never been exposed to it or vaccinated for it, ever. The CDC, in answer to an e-mail I sent them about it several years ago (because I had the vaxx twice, once in infancy and once again in boot camp, and they both took), responded with “both of them fade after XX years”.\u00a0 \u00a0In plain English, nothing lasts forever, including immunity. I didn’t ask CDC about the polio vaxx, but we got that at school as soon as the Salk vaccine was available, once as an injection and again (twice) with the sugar cube version.<\/p>\n

Nothing lasts forever.<\/p>\n

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