29/09/2022
Early 2020 saw the world break into what has been described as a “war-like situation”: A pandemic, caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome-related coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), the likes of which majority of the living generations across most of the planet have not ever seen. This pandemic has downed economies and resulted in hundreds of thousands of deaths.” Tokyo University of Science 7/1/21
History, precedents, similarities, virus structure and invasion, pathology, physiology, lethality vs safety in perspective, China, geography, EU vs USA comparison, time-line, media, politics, pandemic modelling, symptoms, lockdown, economics, joblessness, vascular-platelet-glycocalyx clotting, testing, ventilators, medications, vaccines, supplements, diet:
This 2019 corona virus CoV2-19 is an entirely new RNA virus with 30 proteins. Corona viruses have the largest known viral genome. The RNA of a corona virus is single-stranded. The word “VIRUS” means “poison.” A human cell has 20,000 different proteins. Being an RNA virus, it is similar to hepatitis C; it is not a DNA virus like hepatitis B. There are 200 viruses that can cause the common cold and several of these are corona viruses. “Corona” is Latin for “crown” which is how the virus looks in the microscope as if it has an encircling crown. The specific CoV2-19 genetic RNA fact and its “SPIKE” projections will affect anti-viral treatment design and decisions. That virus spike binds to and fuses with host cells. “The SARS-CoV-2 spike protein trimer is only ~10nm in size (1/100,000 of a millimeter) and there are approximately 100 of these on the surface of a single viral particle, which itself is about 100 nm in diameter.” CoV2-19 was detected by it having a new genetic sequence as recognized by GenBank—it may have been around for a thousand years, but it is just now discovered. The Chinese symbol for it is pronounced “wayGee” and means both “crisis” and “opportunity”: two sides of the same coin. The first known novel and important coronavirus was called SARS = Severe Acute Respiratory syndrome. There are only 2 known previous serious corona virus outbreaks: SARS and Middle East respiratory syndrome = MERS, the latter epidemic was smaller, but with a 1/3 (33%!) death rate!
A REMARABLY lucid and up-to-date VIDEO explanation of of corona virus variants, their genetic make-up, infectivity, and epidemiology. BASIC RESEARCH by Jeremy Kamil of Louisiana State University as of 3/34/21. In case the link does not work, go to VuMedi to view this:
The first human coronavirus sample was identified 56 years ago if I recall correctly. mRNA vaccine research dates from 1990. They figured out how to stabilize synthetic mRNA around 2001–2002, founded Moderna in 2003. SARS research kicked into high gear in 2001, and then the SARS near pandemic of 2011 …”
Here is a perspective on plagues by G Pascal in the Lancet Infectious Disease 7/2021 21: 928 reviewing the book by John Froude titled ‘Plagued.’ “The devastation from plagues is far worse. More soldiers have lost their lives from disease than the wars they thought in. At least 300 million people have died from bubonic plague alone. When yellow fever hit Memphis, Tennessee, in 1878, it became a “city of corpses,” and malaria has killed between 200-300 million people in the 20th century alone. Smallpox spread around the world within 200 years and last year it took CoV2-19 just 4 months.”
Here is SUPERB reporting from ‘Vanity Fair’ 5/27/21 by Kartherine Eban regarding the possibility of a lab-leak of the Corona Virus resulting in the CoV2-19 pandemic. A small amount of politics is therein.
Here is the profound and entire Wall Street Journal 6/6/21 editorial by the heavily credentialled Quay and Muller regarding the origin of the Wuhan Corona Virus CoV2-19
