Stiff wrote: Sat Apr 10, 2021 2:01 pm
A relative who has been vaccinated just tested positive for Covid. He’s not sick, just infected. Herd immunity is harder to achieve when some vaccinated people can still spread the virus. This is bad news for anti vaxxers, regardless to whether they believe it. They can still catch Covid even when everybody else have been vaccinated.
It seems that the Darwin effect is stronger with this virus.
Mutation and evolution is a numbers game. The higher the numbers of individuals go, the higher the probability of mutation. And the number of "individuals"--copies of the virus, are unbelievably astronomical.
Just start with the fact that each infected human cell produces hundreds of thousands of copies of the virus and that the average person has 37.5 trillion cell...and 136.8 million people have been infected world-wide....
My totally WAG assumptions are
1) that one human cell produces 200,000 copies.
2) 1/100 of 1 % of a person's cells are infected -- 3,750,000,000 cells
3) all 136.5 million infected follow this pattern.
4) That there have been 200 billion individuals in the 6 million years since our genetic line split from our nearest cousins, the chimpanzees and bonobos.
What you see is that there are many thousands more generations of the virus in just one year than in the 6 million years that we have evolved from apes.
We're talking Septillions or Octillions of the virus in a year vs 200 billion persons in 6 million years.
With that, Evolution goes from probability to certainty.
Scares the shit out of me.
"Even if the bee could explain to the fly why pollen is better than shit, the fly could never understand."