CPCSupport:It's Evolving... *that quickly*? How??

DRAFT

I've brought up broadcast TV reports of COVID Psychosis before, and you can read about the huge number of puzzling conditions caused by SARS COV 2 infection on Google Scholar, but that's not really the part that scares me the most. After all, we've got prophylactics for some nasty diseases that have ravaged us throughout history, up to the contrast between some who receives rabies treatment, and someone who hasn't received rabies treatment. Pretty much a slam dunk in terms of effectiveness there.

But one of the things I never really got about this pandemic is the lack of concern over the speed in evolution of the SARS COV 2 virus. I mean sure, influenza is pretty quick, but SARS 2 is just unprecedented:

GISAID

Nextstrain and GISAID are at this point, years old projects dedicated to tracking the lineages of various pathogens. Various institutions use them to help develop various treatments for these rapidly spreading viruses. After all, GISAID stands for the Global Initiative on Sharing all Influenza Data, and just like it's namesake suggests, it tracks the evolution of influenza through charts like these:

• H3N2.
• And H1N1, notorious for causing a ruckus back in 2009...

Now we all know that influenza evolves pretty quickly, to the point of needing new shots every year or so. So it's a pretty fast-evolving virus.

Recently, GISAID has also pivoted to focusing SARS 2. Surely it can't be that bad, right?

• Oh.

Notice: The timescale has shrunk. The density of the variants displayed on the chart. It almost evokes a feeling of dread akin to the spread of antibiotic resistance. What do you get from this rapid evolution?

Maybe... reports of people getting infected after being vaccinated? People being infected in the summer?

People being infected multiple times a year? Symptoms changing between each variant?

Oh, and given the nature of mutations being caused by literal random events, the next successful variant could be totally benign or worse. Maybe getting infected 2+ times a year with COVID is totally benign in the long run. But given you only have one life, I'd rather not find out.

Respirators

Unless the virus can make it past the laws of physics, it won't get past your respirator.

Well that's it for this draft... maybe someday I'll complete it. --TheTester