tankasnowgod
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More of a question for thought than anything else. I have long heard that the common cold is caused by "viruses," and that these viruses mutate every year or so. Hence, why many people can catch several colds a year, every year. Obviously, the same storyline is being rolled out with Covid. You don't just have to worry about SARS-Cov-2: Electric Boogaloo, but now the Delta Airlines variant, and the Lambada, Dance of Death variant, and whatever other nonsense they think of.
Putting aside the well documented problems with discovery, isolation, and detection for a moment.....
Why don't other types of viruses "mutate?" Why aren't we concerned with other forms?
Take Chickenpox. It's supposedly caused by the Varicella Zoster Virus. Chickenpox usually occurs once during childhood..... and that's it. If you do come down with a recurrence of the virus, it is usually several decades later, and takes on a slightly different form, of Shingles. So, the question....... how come there aren't several different forms of Chickenpox? How come we don't have Turkeypox, and Seagullpox, and Penguinpox, and Eaglepox, and Ostrichpox and so many other variations that we've run out of birds to name them after? Or do all these hundreds/thousands/millions exist, and they all basically present as the same disease, and once your body fought off one, it's pretty exceptional at fighting off them all?
You can apply this idea to measles, smallpox, HIV, or any other disease where a "virus" is the supposed source. In fact, the origins of vaccination came from the idea that an exposure to Cowpox was enough to give the body immunity from the more serious version of smallpox. It's pretty clear the talk of variants and "booster shots" runs counter to one of the initial postulates on vaccination. Although, they've broken many of their own rules during this pandemic narrative, so this in itself is nothing new.
But just something to ponder..... how come no one gets Eaglepox or Penguinpox, but we all just get Chickenpox?
Putting aside the well documented problems with discovery, isolation, and detection for a moment.....
Why don't other types of viruses "mutate?" Why aren't we concerned with other forms?
Take Chickenpox. It's supposedly caused by the Varicella Zoster Virus. Chickenpox usually occurs once during childhood..... and that's it. If you do come down with a recurrence of the virus, it is usually several decades later, and takes on a slightly different form, of Shingles. So, the question....... how come there aren't several different forms of Chickenpox? How come we don't have Turkeypox, and Seagullpox, and Penguinpox, and Eaglepox, and Ostrichpox and so many other variations that we've run out of birds to name them after? Or do all these hundreds/thousands/millions exist, and they all basically present as the same disease, and once your body fought off one, it's pretty exceptional at fighting off them all?
You can apply this idea to measles, smallpox, HIV, or any other disease where a "virus" is the supposed source. In fact, the origins of vaccination came from the idea that an exposure to Cowpox was enough to give the body immunity from the more serious version of smallpox. It's pretty clear the talk of variants and "booster shots" runs counter to one of the initial postulates on vaccination. Although, they've broken many of their own rules during this pandemic narrative, so this in itself is nothing new.
But just something to ponder..... how come no one gets Eaglepox or Penguinpox, but we all just get Chickenpox?
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