Ruled by Physics on Nostr: Curious how discussion of the pandemic is completely absent here. Maybe the wrong ...
Curious how discussion of the pandemic is completely absent here. Maybe the wrong people sure, but people still get ill.
This year I have learnt about evolutionary biology. I think the human species sort of forgot about it, too busy getting rich.
But then comes along a likely engineered virus Covid-19. Which mankind, through massive vaccinations, enable immune escape of the virus by means of mutations.
The mutations are errors in the transcription process, sometimes they are favorable.
What sort of mutation (/variants) are selected? The ones that survive natural selection of course.
The virus is going through stepwise mutations to survive right now. A virus survives by multiplying inside the host cell and destroying the host cell in the process, infecting new cells.
Only the immune system, which is now being circumvented, can stop this exponential process.
Where is this stepwise evolutionary process going then, is the million dollar question.
This year I have learnt about evolutionary biology. I think the human species sort of forgot about it, too busy getting rich.
But then comes along a likely engineered virus Covid-19. Which mankind, through massive vaccinations, enable immune escape of the virus by means of mutations.
The mutations are errors in the transcription process, sometimes they are favorable.
What sort of mutation (/variants) are selected? The ones that survive natural selection of course.
The virus is going through stepwise mutations to survive right now. A virus survives by multiplying inside the host cell and destroying the host cell in the process, infecting new cells.
Only the immune system, which is now being circumvented, can stop this exponential process.
Where is this stepwise evolutionary process going then, is the million dollar question.