July 12, 2020

Scientists are being pushed aside by persons who think they have viruses figured out. Such persons assume the Corona virus is like the flu.

There is a tendency to assume that the numbers and graphs which show up in the media are the essence of the science, while anyone can find whatever they are looking for in the endless and confusing numbers.

The primary erroneous assumption is that immunity continually increases for diseases, so the Corona virus will burn itself out like the flu does every year. They missed an ocean and drowned in a thimble of trivia.

They didn't notice that not all diseases produce an immune response suitable for ending the disease. AIDs is the most obvious, but there are any number of others such as hepatitis and herpes. Who needs to know that when you've studied economics at Wharton.

One of the problems with the Corona virus is that it can attack the upper nasal area, where antibodies in the blood do not easily get to. So there was an evolutionary pressure for escaping antibodies at the start of the infection.

Another thing missed is that the Corona virus has not existed much in the human society as the flu has, which means there is less innate immunity to it. That means the layers of protective immunity are weak, which normally includes a large and varied array of proteins, inside and outside the cells, such as interferons.

The Corona virus is not burning out like the flu does. This fact should be obvious from the charts and numbers that are observed. The scientists see it in the numbers, the rationalizers don't.

So the Corona virus is just getting started, while fools assume it is just getting rid of the weaklings and there is no reason to shut down the economy for it.

Another bit of ignorance is looking only at the death rate. Viruses do a lot more than kill people, and often not very rapidly. The complex and delayed effects acting upon persons who did not die from the virus are being studied and documented daily. The virus damages a wide variety of organs including kidneys, liver, heart and nerve system—often delayed and invisibly so.

Scientists have been describing the devastating results that survivors have been showing, while fools ignore and contradict them.

While the flu virus adapted to the human society, the Corona virus primarily adapted to the animal world. The flu virus will hang in the air awhile, perhaps for two minutes, as an "aerosol" and still be infective, because it has a surface which resists drying. There are lipid and crowded proteins on the surface of the flu virus which slows the drying process.

The Corona virus does not resist drying well, because its vulnerable surface consists of a few spike proteins which easily dehydrate. So the Corona virus probably becomes too dry and non-infective in about 10 or 20 seconds in the air. That question is being studied.

So the Corona virus needed crowded environments to spread, which it found in such places as bats in a cave where crowding is extreme. But throughout the evolutionary history of the Corona virus, humans were spread out too much for easy spreading of the Corona virus through the air.

Now, conditions are changing, as humans do more crowding in populated areas and move around with more mobility. So the Corona virus can now spread more easily through the human population than before.
 

Evolution Biology Of The Corona Virus