The number of global mutations of Covid-19 by the NextStain Team is both fascinating and shocking.
This Tweet on Wisconsin caught my attention.
The global data is even more interesting.
Global Charts
The site is interactive. This is how the chart looks if one click on the US.
Spotlight USA
Global Map of How the Pandemic Spread
The above map shows the US was infected by China, Australia, and Europe.
Then the US took up global spreading leadership to South America, Africa, and Canada, and in a major way back to Australia and especially back to Europe.
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Mish
A no less fascinating tale could be told about the spread of a normal flu each year. This one is being used in an asymmetric war, so it’s medical properties play second fiddle (if that) to their impact in the geopolitical arena with its being used as a pretext to try to bring down western civilisation, presumably being perpetrated by the Chinese Communist Party bent on world domination.
Obviously that simple story isn’t true; but something is. I wonder if Mish can turn his clearly perceptive mind to trying to figure that out rather than getting lost in the fascinating weeds of a virus travels and throws off various strains.
I’ve had Lyme for about 20 years. Each Lymey cultivates many different strains in different parts of the body. There are uncountable borrelia strains and every Lymey has dozens of co-infections.
The reason HCQ + Azythro (+Zinc) may have been helpful for many is because they combine an antiviral with an antibiotic. And the reason that might work is that nearly every known bacterial infection seems to trigger viral co-infections and vice versa. (On the more microscopic level there are bacteriophages but their role is not yet understood, they are like micro-mini bacteria – maybe.) The point is that each disease involving pathogens is infinitely complex if you try to drill down into the various physical properties and components, aka pathogens. But as Pasteur noted on his deathbed, it’s not the pathogens that matter, it’s the terrain/field.
In this case, they should keep things simple and maybe the country is ready now.
The one-size-fits-all approach is inappropriate.
Crashing the economy (aka livelihoods and lives) is inappropriate.
The crashing is being used by various power blocs – maybe they are struggling to see who uses it best, who knows?
But this is not merely a medical situation and its high time we all stopped treating it as if it were. It’s a tool in a war and we are all cowering in our rooms because we have been told to and it’s time for more of us to wake up a little and try to figure out what’s going on and how we can responsibly accelerate bringing things back to normal before it’s too late.
Because if this IS a war, then the coronavirus is most likely just the opening salvo to bring the economy (or rather our civilisation) to its knees; it’s unlikely we will be allowed to simply bring it back up to par within a month or two as Trump (and most normal non-TDS people) are hoping. If it’s not a war, then all will be well pretty soon, which is good news for everyone.
I hope we are not entering a time like the French or Russian revolutions. Huge percentages of the existing populations lost their lives in the decade or so following. If this is a concerted attempt at regime change, essentially, the aftermath could be far worse for our collective health than this virus which hasn’t even managed to raise the average net monthly death rate yet. I seem to recall reading that over a quarter of French males lost their lives in the 10 years or so following, but I think that might be low. The percentages of both men and women in Russia were higher. Bloodbath. Bad stuff happens. We are not used to it these days and I hope we are not about to get a rude awakening.
With my limited knowledge of genetics, I believe that the corona virus won’t exhibit a different pattern of mutations than ordinary flu.
The Washington Post is reporting that, across the country, people are not coming into hospital emergency rooms with heart attacks, strokes, appendicitis, or gall bladder problems. They can’t figure out what is happening to all these people who normally come in with problems.
The Washington Post never figures anything out, which is their performance level since Jeffy made the newspaper into Bezo’s Blog. They just print propaganda for the US. Certain people have the skids greased for them by playing “the good boy”.
I’ve lived in DC off and on for 30 years which has given me a chance to see how the Post has changed. It became a knee jerk left wing feminazi fiction rag a long time before Bezos bought it, so, to be fair, you can’t hang that on him. In fact, it might have improved very slightly. I suspect self made billionaires aren’t shy about canning gross incompetence. Which is 90% of the Post writers but I guess you can’t fire everyone at the same time.
That’s because Hospitals have been deferring treatment due to the Covid crisis…..even for critical patients such strokes and cardiac arrest etc. It is happening in California , New York and many other states.
The truth is that President Donald Trump is locked in an intense power struggle with Bill Gates, who is pushing his vaccines, which may not be available to the public until after November’s election. Gates has a lot of pull in the medical world, he has a multi-million dollar relationship with Dr. Fauci, and Fauci originally took the Gates line supporting vaccines and casting doubt on Chloroquine. Both Fauci AND Birx have big-money Bill Gates conflicts of interest.
Don’t you get it? Gates made his billions and now he’s giving away billions. He isn’t making any money on this! He is following the science. Can you please back off on the conspiracy theories?
My reply is below but ended up as a reply to shred
Just like Rockefeller did.
“He isn’t making any money on this! He is following the science.”
There is absolutely nothing wrong with making money.
Gates thinks there are too many people and wants to depopulate the world. Such people should not be entrusted with healthcare.
He also wants to ID everyone. He literally wants the world to be a technological dictatorship. He’s totally against individual rights.
I’m not sure how you reconcile the idea that Gates wants to depopulate the world with the fact that he has seemingly spent great resources trying to save lives in areas with higher population growth.
Because he’s trying to convince people that he’s a good guy and they should listen to him when he says there should be no public gatherings allowed until a (his) vaccine is available.
And, btw, countries with higher population growth usually have low population densities, such as those in sub-Saharan Africa where Gates’ malaria vaccine. And, don’t confuse fertility rate with population growth rate.
One’s pushing vaccinations, and the other one’s hawking some anti malaria drugs.
And I for one agree with Gates. There are too many people in this world and most of them are ignorant and dumb. 7 billion people is not a problem. 7 billion people, 6.9 billion of which are dumb/ignorant is a problem.
“There are too many people in this world…”
Humans are good. Overpopulation is bullshit and has been since that commie sicko, Paul Ehrlich, published that now refuted rubbish.
Theoretically there’s nothing wrong with more human population growth, but if we continue to insist on living in this banker kleptocracy where way too many people have nothing productive to do, lower population is better.
I’d like to ditch the central bankers and let people do what they want, but we both know that’s not going to happen without total collapse.
I like to bash banker created debt based economy more than anybody, but this has nothing to do with bankers. The most population growth occurs in geographies or population strata where banking barely exists.
“The most population growth occurs in geographies or population strata where banking barely exists.”
….Thank goodness. It may take a long time, per the time horizon of most individuals, but at least evolution is still working.
Sure it does. In a financialized economy, most people become superfluous since the Fed makes the markets. Without any purpose, people become wayward and angry. Some of them blame themselves and succumb to drugs or alcohol, while others lash out.
We’re seeing the results of this anger already in the US. Our society would eventually fall anyway with these debt loads, but this pervasive acrimony will bring it down first.
As far as I am concerned, those who think there are too many people can take their own initiative to do something about it, as long as the leave everyone else out.
I am for life extension and aging reversal. When the latter is possible (as it eventually will be), humans will be living for 100s if not 1000s of years. And that will be good.
It doesn’t matter what you or I think about this, I’m telling you that in this environment people will become ever more vengeful. We don’t have to think very hard to see this, it’s been staring us in the face for decades. Society has changed a ton since I was a kid in the 1980s.
This is why the red/blue divide and conquer narrative is so important now. There is an understanding that this animosity is only going to grow, so it’s imperative that this anger be directed in unhelpful and useless ways.
If people are incentivized to work together, then population can grow peacefully. We live in a society where money is created out of nothing and people don’t need each other.
If 90% plus were smart instead of dumb humanoids, there would not be 7 billion in the first place.
Bill Gates achieved his wealth through family connections by selling his operating system to IBM, then used it as a platform to force competition out of business (similar to Standard Oil acquiring railways that transported oil). That he masquerades as a philanthropist does not obscure that fact.