The puzzle we have all faced when thinking about a deadly contagion is: why doesn’t it just kill off every last one of us?
From this question epidemiologist launch into their very interesting study of the evolution of viruses. As if conforming to some law that Epicurus identified when he said our worst pains prove to be of brief duration while the long-lasting pains be not so intense, the worst viruses tend to kill off their hosts too quickly to spread themselves widely. So there is a natural limit to the worst viruses.
Now enter a prophylactic “vaccine” that does not prevent infection or, we are told, spreading of the infection: it just allows the infected to feel less put-upon by the disease. It will save some lives, undoubtedly, by lessening the virus’s effects.
But it will allow deadly viral variants to live longer in their hosts to spread to those with weakened immune systems. It will make a super-virus.
What’s not clear to me is whether this protects the vaccinated much, in the long term.
I gather it sets up an arms race. Pfizer and Moderna both are talking about booster shots and constant updates.
So, this is what it LOOKS like to me: Vanden Bossche is probably right. That is, immune escape is going to happen — is probably happening now in “the more dangerous variants” that Fauci yammers on about. This will first affect the NON-vaccinated. Killing millions. Then there will be the blowback onto the vaxxed. There will be hysterical demands for more and more R&D in genetic treatments. Politically, we will achieve a new level of governance: the medical-industrial complex. There will be scant freedom of association, and your travels will be restricted and tagged.
Our civilization will, if it survives, become mostly virtual — as in Asimov’s The Naked Sun — and we will cease exist as a social species. It will be all virtual-social.
If this be correct, it is already too late. The die is cast. We are in this rut. There is no “going back.” We are committed to transhumanist/posthumanist manipulation of the genome, because that is where these simple mRNA pseudo-vaccines will lead us, through their failures.
The evolution of the virus is going to lead us to a weird stefnal future that I only read about in the past.
I could of course be wrong. This is merely the scenario that fits closest to what I have understood of epidemiology for years. I’d love to be wrong. I do not particularly want to die within the next few years. But to accept a correction I would actually have to see it and understand it. In other words, I would have to see some actual science in place of all the cowardly bullying groupthink promoted by CNN and the CIA and women wearing masks as they jog.
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Wirkman Comment 
Hello.
First, please explain “stefnal”, as I cannot find the meaning on the internet, nor in my hefty lexicon.
Second, this conjecture will also go the way of the Dodo. The human immune system is far more apt than what they make it appear to be. Of course, Government ineptitude is a challenge to it. And compounding that unending curse, we have now the masses cheering on the Messianic Therapeutic State, stupefied by their venomous smartphones. But Chemistry is still Chemistry. Viruses are obligated intracellular parasites. To abuse language: they are as willing to reach an equilibrium with us as we are with them.
Our defenses are invisible to the Eye, and that is what is most important.
On the other hand, if mandated germophobia and induced mental illness may kill hundreds of millions before any virus gets them. It might be that gaslighting is not an exaggeration this time.
Laissez faire, laissez passer, le monde va de lui même. That is the
The world, in this case, is not only human thoughts and emotions. Chemistry is very much overlooked these days.
Have a nice day!