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Do you mind expanding on your India disagreement re: vaccine pressure for variant production? If you already expanded elsewhere do you mind linking so I can read? Thanks!
Actually, as of yesterday I've corrected my ignorance on the extent of the Astrazeneca (Covishield) trial in India - these were underway already in late 2020. So, if the theory that the trials drove variants even back when 1 in 1,000,000 people were involved is correct, India can be lumped in. That leaves the northeast US as a better counter-argument for both Bedford's "host immune pressure" and for the trial-based theory. There was a spring wave in the northeast, and there were vaccine trials in the US generally - but no emergence of variants of concern.
I think at this point, trying to match the emergence of variants to a Darwinian pressure paradigm is a lost battle. It doesn't look like pressure - so, accept that it might not be pressure. It could be conspiratorial human intervention; it could be timer-based genetic restlessness on the part of the viral genome; it could be synchronized zoonotic crossover; it could be something we can't even imagine.
I was compiling info to test the hypothesis and it was looking pretty solid. I'll have to look a little closer and maybe write something that can be debunked.
For the original SARS-CoV-2 or the variants? A lot of researchers have commented that the lack of a fast "learning curve" in the beginning indicated that natural zoonotic origin was fantastically implausible; and Couey is compelling that the small _suite_ of changes available (the fact that geographically separate strains make the same choices) indicate that the virus was designed to possess near-ideal binding. However, I am not sure how thorough our previous understanding of viral genetics for coronavirus really is - so, do we really have a reference to compare against? I have no idea.
Rhonda doesn't seem to write much. She is fairly prolific in videos and has a lot of good insights, including at her own site at foundmyfitness. Maybe we can talk her into starting a substack.
I can't see any content on her site except, of course, the videos (and locked podcasts). It's very frustrating. At leas Bret Weinstein has the excuse that he is advocating for doubt, not certainty on the Covid vaccines; or only hosting the views of others which are well-documented in the ivermectin / Kory case. Patrick should really be putting her claims on paper.
Some people seem to prefer visual formats these days. I came across her for her interest in longevity research, which seems to be her primary interest. Seems everybody has opinions about covid these days -- hard not to -- but precious little data. Saw a state dept rep on TV few minutes ago admonishing the other panelists they're wrong to discourage the vax. I doubt she has any qualifications for those criticisms. I didn't catch the first part about why State even has an opinion. I don't really want to know. Mass insanity adequately explains it.
Do you mind expanding on your India disagreement re: vaccine pressure for variant production? If you already expanded elsewhere do you mind linking so I can read? Thanks!
Actually, as of yesterday I've corrected my ignorance on the extent of the Astrazeneca (Covishield) trial in India - these were underway already in late 2020. So, if the theory that the trials drove variants even back when 1 in 1,000,000 people were involved is correct, India can be lumped in. That leaves the northeast US as a better counter-argument for both Bedford's "host immune pressure" and for the trial-based theory. There was a spring wave in the northeast, and there were vaccine trials in the US generally - but no emergence of variants of concern.
I think at this point, trying to match the emergence of variants to a Darwinian pressure paradigm is a lost battle. It doesn't look like pressure - so, accept that it might not be pressure. It could be conspiratorial human intervention; it could be timer-based genetic restlessness on the part of the viral genome; it could be synchronized zoonotic crossover; it could be something we can't even imagine.
I was compiling info to test the hypothesis and it was looking pretty solid. I'll have to look a little closer and maybe write something that can be debunked.
Appreciate the reply.
Lab leak or natural mutation?
For the original SARS-CoV-2 or the variants? A lot of researchers have commented that the lack of a fast "learning curve" in the beginning indicated that natural zoonotic origin was fantastically implausible; and Couey is compelling that the small _suite_ of changes available (the fact that geographically separate strains make the same choices) indicate that the virus was designed to possess near-ideal binding. However, I am not sure how thorough our previous understanding of viral genetics for coronavirus really is - so, do we really have a reference to compare against? I have no idea.
Rhonda doesn't seem to write much. She is fairly prolific in videos and has a lot of good insights, including at her own site at foundmyfitness. Maybe we can talk her into starting a substack.
I can't see any content on her site except, of course, the videos (and locked podcasts). It's very frustrating. At leas Bret Weinstein has the excuse that he is advocating for doubt, not certainty on the Covid vaccines; or only hosting the views of others which are well-documented in the ivermectin / Kory case. Patrick should really be putting her claims on paper.
Some people seem to prefer visual formats these days. I came across her for her interest in longevity research, which seems to be her primary interest. Seems everybody has opinions about covid these days -- hard not to -- but precious little data. Saw a state dept rep on TV few minutes ago admonishing the other panelists they're wrong to discourage the vax. I doubt she has any qualifications for those criticisms. I didn't catch the first part about why State even has an opinion. I don't really want to know. Mass insanity adequately explains it.