That stupid usless fuck. 🖕🏼🤬

and let it "wash through the community" when they could have stopped a weaker version of the virus in its tracks.

Also no reason why it couldn't mutate again to a more deadly version.

The idiot has made it infinitely more destructive here but we could never have escaped the mutation.

Mutations will happen but they're a lot more likely when 2.5 million people are infected than 80,000.

He defunded the global pandemic team whose job it was to stop these kinds of viruses in other countries before they get to the US in the first place.

our scientists were jointly identifying new viruses, we may have had more baseline information to work with when it got to us. Nothing is a certainty, but things never work out when a person completely ignores the value of trying to get ahead of a threat.

viruses attack cells and replicate. They love sugar and they love lecithin and the complex amino acids that make up our diets. The typical human diet is too rich in sugar and lots of people, and from my personal observations of African Americans which I am part of, eat lecithin in the rawer forms that work for viruses, eggs over-easy or soft scrambled, where the yoke doesn't see enough heat to start breakdown of the phospho-lipid compounds that make up lecithin. We also eat more complex amino acids than any other species on earth, with the protein building blocks coming from highly modified animal and plant sources, that we have modified over centuries. I am starting to believe that we make the perfect hosts for SARS-COV-2 because of things in our diets.

There are MAGAT idiots, but most old people are not taking chances. The fact that it is sickening younger people at record rates is not good for anyone, to me that likely means that it is deadlier for everyone and it's just matter of time before that becomes clear.

Though I’m very hopeful for an effective vaccine, I feel strongly that we’re going to need more than one weapon to fight this virus. Anti-virals can remain effective even if a virus mutates. They can also be used as a substitute for a vaccine in those whose bodies don’t evoke a strong enough immune response. Finally...and this is my big hope..they can sometimes be used prophylactically (post exposure prophylaxis), in other words if administered post exposure they prevent the virus from taking hold (like some HIV drugs do now).

Along those lines, someone posted about a new flu strain out of China with potential pandemic qualities. My hope is that the existing flu anti-virals (Tamiflu, XOFLUZA) will work against this new flu in case a vaccine can’t be developed in time.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10142526328

They know of nothing that matches it's genome. Fortunately it has not jumped from pigs to humans (at least that is what China is telling the world).