Darwin’s books and theories have always been a love-hate thing for me. I love the idea of natural selection, but at the same time it creeps me out, gives me the willies, causes the hackles to stand up on my neck, and any other relevant or irrelevant phrase that has been used by every grade b movie or hack writer over the years. Cliches are the new pink. To pun or not to pun, is it even a question.
I keep coming back to not COVID-19, but to the coronavirus itself. The disputed fact of it was a modified version manmade rather than evolved doesn’t matter. Isn’t relevant. Water under the bridge.
What got me thinking about it was hearing that someone who used to ride the bus to school with me, had retired from law enforcement, and was trying to supplement his retirement in the career of propane had been killed by a gun-toting maniac. Multiple gunshot wounds are detrimental to survival. Things change, sometimes for the better, sometimes not.
I’d also seen recently that the latest version of the virus now had mutated to a version, omicron, that blam blam, like an automatic weapon can fire rapidly a volley at a human cell from 25 different spicules. All the spicules have the ability to hit and attach, but some are more likely to attach than others.
The virus is the 20’s version of parachute pants in the 80’s. It’s all over the news, people who got caught up in having them might survive, might not. Don’t believe me? Do a web search of death by parachute pants. It isn’t pretty.
This isn’t my fictional work. I haven’t decided yet if I want to put it on this website, or if I do whether I should make another page for fiction. This is about Darwinism, plain and simple.
Omicron. Sounds like a bad science fiction movie. The WHO and CDC freaked out about it. The last news blurb I heard said people in 18 states already have it. The sky is falling. Captain, she’s taking on water, and the pumps can’t keep up. We’re going down. Yeah, right.
Lol and behold (I’ve always wanted to use that phrase in my writing but considered it way too cheesy, ha!) the hype was just that, hype. (Don’t Believe the Hype – You know the song.). Omicron appears to be slightly worse than a severe cold.
Sticking with cliches and overused phrases, with omicron, the coronavirus looks to be a victim of its own success. At least on the surface it does, but is it really?
Like all life, corona wants to procreate. More virus means more opportunity to infect hosts and procreate yet again. To quote the Brain. “The same thing we do every night, Pinky – Try to take over the world!”. In this aspect, omicron is perfect.
It doesn’t appear to kill its host, nor like other versions of Corona does it appear to leave most who catch it incapacitated. Have omicron? Go grocery shopping! Head into work. It’s your week, so carpool the neighborhood kids to school. In short, it’s mutated to a version that can find new hosts much more readily. It can procreate more and more easily.
Now to the main point. Vaccinations. I doubt the federal government and categorically deny the pharmaceutical industry will play up any version of this. Why? Ka-ching. Money.
Billions made on vaccines. An atmosphere of fear. Get the vaccine and hopefully live. Look at the poor saps who didn’t get it and died from corona.
My older brother was listed as a victim of the virus. In reality, he’d lived a lifestyle of poor choices and taken risks with his health. Overweight, diabetes, wrong choices of diet, sedentary lifestyle. He’d had quadruple bypass surgery, and if it wasn’t Corona, it would have been lifestyle and time eventually. But… He got Corona. The stress it placed upon his system resulted in 2 heart attacks, the second one fatal. He had chosen to pass on vaccination.
Would he still be alive today if he’d gotten omicron? I don’t know. I do know he had strong will. I think it likely he would have been a Timex. Still ticking.
Vaccines again. Omicron. Bad cold. Death from this version not quite zero, but lower than most versions of the flu.
But Damon so what? Good question. Think of it this way. A person who recovers from omicron has to fight off the virus. Just like other versions, both live and dead versions of the virus are passed along in fluids, excrement, and by touch. Omicron lives longer outside the host. It’s much more contagious. It’s the perfect storm.
More people will live with omicron. The body, as in other versions, has to fight off the virus. The immune system is hyped up and looking for a fight. The 25 spicules omicron can use to attach to cells contain the same spicules as the more deadly versions of the virus as well as multiple new spicules.
The hosts who survive omicron will be, without directly receiving a vaccine, in essence vaccinated. The human body doesn’t care if the virus is alive or dead when it enters the body. The immune system will react to and attack the foreign bodies. It’ll out up defenses to try and keep further incursions from occuring. Both the vaccine and omicron reach the same end result, resistance to the deadly form of the disease.
But what does it mean? In short, vaccinated or omicron, your body will weild the same defensive tools to resist further infection.
Ain’t nobody at the pharmaceutical companies gonna want off the gravy train. The push for vaccinations shall continue unabated. The government won’t, nor at this point do I believe they could if they wanted to, change its position on vaccinations. They can’t. Imagine the loss of public trust if the position were to be reversed now. It isn’t going to happen.
I have been vaccinated. I will not be receiving any boosters from this point forward. It was a long and hard decision, and I totally respect and agree with anyone who does choose to both get vaccinated and decides on boosters.
I won’t. Despite the commercials explaining how safe the vaccine is and how rigorously it was tested, compare it to other FDA approved drugs. There simply wasn’t enough time between initial development of the vaccine and its release to the general public to have performed the standard FDA approval animal and human trials of the vaccine. I understand the public pressure to get the vaccine made and distributed, but the side effects, including deadly ones, are virtually unknown.
I’m not ranting political nor trying to influence anyone. This was just a sharing of the things that went through my head after hearing too many details of a good man’s murder.
Peace