Im not medical person, however my thought was always that a higher payload meant a higher viral count for a given droplet of infected spit/snot whatever.
To me if getting vaccinated meant there was a measurable correlation between vax and lower count, because the bodies immune system was able to detect the virus sooner as a result of training (the idea of vax if memory serves), then for that reason vax was thr best way forward given the likely swamping of hospitals with sick patients in the short to.medium term.
Hospitals swamped with additional highly infectious sick patients is never a good thing…people who are already sick are highly vulnerable to additional sickness…take golden staph as point and example. Its one thing to go into hospital with a relatively minor ailment /or injury but another to come out with golden staph. A neighbour of ours when i was a child got this from hospital and suffered immensly for many months.
Also, given the experience with flu’s and common colds, why would scientists claim it wouldnt mutate quickly if at all? That isnt something i consider logical and the conclusions of the article are what i have always thought given colds and flu’s. Even thoughh theologivally, im a bit of a legalist, following rule books shouldnt impede on common sense when we have other direct evidences that shed light on a lack of experience.
I remember thinking of the refrain from Judges, “Every man to his tent, O Israel!”, i.e. everyone abandon all others and see only to his own protection, and “Every man did what was right in his own eyes”.
Sometimes the additional data known to intelligence agencies gets misinterpreted. Part of the overexpectation of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq was the failure to realize that production may be highly overreported when reporting high production helps keep you from getting executed.
I almost hate to resurrect this thread, but came across this interview which is really quite interesting. One takeaway is that even though he comes to the conclusion that the origin of Covid was the wet market, that is more not less frightening than if it were from a lab, as that means the great big lab of Mother Nature is out there making other viral monsters without so much as laminar flow hood, and we are quite vulnerable
Yeah, there’s nothing remotely reassuring about a wet market zoonotic origin for SARS-CoV-2. Nor does such an origin do a thing to reduce the risk from sloppy lab practices, which is real.
Agree on both points. The scientific community as a whole was entirely correct for fearing a lab leak in the early days of the pandemic, and we shouldn’t grow numb to the dangers of potential lab leaks. Just as one example, the last known cases of smallpox were due to a lab leak which was part of the impetus to ban the growth of smallpox in labs.
While some of us have argued vociferously that the evidence points to a natural origin for this latest pandemic that should not be taken as a sign we are ignoring the dangers of viruses escaping labs, nor should it be taken as a sign of “defending our own”. Trust us, if it was a lab leak the scientific community would be leading the pack condemning it.