flacaltenn
Diamond Member
I’ll say it once again, for probably the 50th time on this site. The vaccines were never going to work. There was always going to be an endless stream of booster shots that just never seem to keep up. Dolla dolla bills y’all for big pharma. YOU CANNOT USE A VACCINE WITH A NARROW SPECTRUM OF IMMUNITY AGAINST A RAPIDLY MUTATING RNA VIRUS.
So FAR -- the major changes to this virus HERE in the U.S. has involved Delta.. THere are literally 1000s of mutations LOGGED elsewhere and some that have ravaged countries or continents (like Mu or , but once that diversity is in play -- it's harder to RE-SEED a general global pandemic.
Even a lowly virus with no control of mutations has enough DNA length to see A LOT OF mutations. Not all of them have a bearing on human transmission or survival.
This "leaky" theory kinda ignores all of that. Not only that but any one variant can do one of 3 things.
1) make the resulting virus WEAKER and less of HUMAN threat because it dies out.
2) have no effect on human survival or transmission.
3) enhance some aspect that DOES affect increase human transmission or lead to higher mortality or increased clinical intervention..
VAST majority of mutations are gonna be #2... And if it's truly random, I SUSPECT that the chances of #1 or #3 are close to identical..
The mRNA "immunity spectrum" is NOT narrow.. At least not as narrow as you think. It does not require matching a LARGE PORTION of the target virus.. If it did THAT -=- it would be "narrow".. But by targeting just the SPIKE protein that ENABLES human infection -- It's actually fairly BROAD coverage of all the possible mutations.
The main thing about "leaky" theory is that you NEED a CHAIN of mutations that ALL SURVIVE AND PROPAGATE in order to substantially change a characteristic that makes the virus more of a human threat. That could be a "couple" or a "couple dozen" SERIALLY connected mutations to get ANY effect on human survival or transmission..
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