Comments by "G Money" (@AliceinWonderlandzz) on "How Not To Handle COVID: Chinese Edition" video.

Particularly worrying about the evolution of this virus is the new variant is something thematically novel in the virus. Previous variants have been variations on a theme of how the virus grabs onto the cell. The new variant represents a new way of sticking the base to the cell and penetrating the membrane - it's a whole new animal with its own tree of variations to the theme. The reason it is the most infectious virus in history by orders of magnitude is because it was literally engineered that way. We created Pandora's box (not the kitty litter but just as noxious). You are absolutely right - we don't know whether the next variant on the theme will trigger a higher mortatility - the good news is the mutation is to the delivery method and not the payload. We are thankfully dealing with a virus that was selected specifically because the NIH and Wuhan thought it was a blank - a dud. Imagine if this had been a bioweapon and the payload was ebola, or small pox, or a toxin. At that infectious rate it would be world ending - like Stephen King world ending. And here is the part that absolutely floors me. Because the responsible parties refuse to admit guilt or responsibility a technology more powerful than the nuclear bomb continues to go completely unregulated. As we speak I can order a CRSPR kit online for 500 dollars. I can order genetic sequences from a public database of over 3000 animals delivered in the mail for a few dollars. I can then insert those sequences in any order into anything I like. A fifteen year old high school lab assistant mad at a bully could make a gut bacteria that sheds botulinum toxin to get even. I can assure you hundreds of labs in places in the world we wouldn't give nuclear power to are happily churning out novel viruses today. COVID was the warning shot for a new world of infection and we are ignoring it to save face for America and China. It's not just negligent. It's apocryphal. If you want to tickly your catastrophist nerve - I genuinely predict that somewhere in the next decade we will have a pandemic similar to Covid that kills 30% plus of the people it infects. It will shut down the global economy permanently and destroy civilization as we know it. Peter's pretty demographic pyramids should be outlined with mushroom clouds.
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Particularly worrying about the evolution of this virus is the new variant is something thematically novel in the virus. Previous variants have been variations on a theme of how the virus grabs onto the cell. The new variant represents a new way of sticking the base to the cell and penetrating the membrane - it's a whole new animal with its own tree of variations to the theme. The reason it is the most infectious virus in history by orders of magnitude is because it was literally engineered that way. We created Pandora's box (not the kitty litter but just as noxious). You are absolutely right - we don't know whether the next variant on the theme will trigger a higher mortatility - the good news is the mutation is to the delivery method and not the payload. We are thankfully dealing with a virus that was selected specifically because the NIH and Wuhan thought it was a blank - a dud. Imagine if this had been a bioweapon and the payload was ebola, or small pox, or a toxin. At that infectious rate it would be world ending - like Stephen King world ending. And here is the part that absolutely floors me. Because the responsible parties refuse to admit guilt or responsibility a technology more powerful than the nuclear bomb continues to go completely unregulated. As we speak I can order a CRSPR kit online for 500 dollars. I can order genetic sequences from a public database of over 3000 animals delivered in the mail for a few dollars. I can then insert those sequences in any order into anything I like. A fifteen year old high school lab assistant mad at a bully could make a gut bacteria that sheds botulinum toxin to get even. I can assure you hundreds of labs in places in the world we wouldn't give nuclear power to are happily churning out novel viruses today. COVID was the warning shot for a new world of infection and we are ignoring it to save face for America and China. It's not just negligent. It's apocryphal. If you want to tickly your catastrophist nerve - I genuinely predict that somewhere in the next decade we will have a pandemic similar to Covid that kills 30% plus of the people it infects. It will shut down the global economy permanently and destroy civilization as we know it. Peter's pretty demographic pyramids should be outlined with mushroom clouds.
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@UCMzEYCyW5OtU2hpqwyTwx7Q if a China citizen mutates the virus are you not infected? In a very real sense we are all in this together
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