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Is this a legit explanation of Wuhan Virus?
Posted on 3/17/20 at 10:19 pm
Posted on 3/17/20 at 10:19 pm
Came from someone who works in a lab.
This is from a friend of a friend, xxxx at xxxxxx. She's a research associate in a basic science lab.
Feeling confused as to why Coronavirus is a bigger deal than Seasonal flu? Here it is in a nutshell. I hope this helps. Feel free to share this to others who don’t understand...
It has to do with RNA sequencing.... i.e. genetics.
Seasonal flu is an “all human virus”. The DNA/RNA chains that make up the virus are recognized by the human immune system. This means that your body has some immunity to it before it comes around each year... you get immunity two ways...through exposure to a virus, or by getting a flu shot.
Novel viruses, come from animals.... the WHO tracks novel viruses in animals, (sometimes for years watching for mutations). Usually these viruses only transfer from animal to animal (pigs in the case of H1N1) (birds in the case of the Spanish flu). But once, one of these animal viruses mutates, and starts to transfer from animals to humans... then it’s a problem, Why? Because we have no natural or acquired immunity.. the RNA sequencing of the genes inside the virus isn’t human, and the human immune system doesn’t recognize it so, we can’t fight it off.
Now.... sometimes, the mutation only allows transfer from animal to human, for years it’s only transmission is from an infected animal to a human before it finally mutates so that it can now transfer human to human... once that happens..we have a new contagion phase. And depending on the fashion of this new mutation, thats what decides how contagious, or how deadly it’s gonna be..
H1N1 was deadly....but it did not mutate in a way that was as deadly as the Spanish flu. It’s RNA was slower to mutate and it attacked its host differently, too.
Fast forward.
Now, here comes this Coronavirus... it existed in animals only, for nobody knows how long...but one day, at an animal market, in Wuhan China, in December 2019, it mutated and made the jump from animal to people. At first, only animals could give it to a person... But here is the scary part.... in just TWO WEEKS it mutated again and gained the ability to jump from human to human. Scientists call this quick ability, “slippery”
This Coronavirus, not being in any form a “human” virus (whereas we would all have some natural or acquired immunity). Took off like a rocket. And this was because, Humans have no known immunity...doctors have no known medicines for it.
And it just so happens that this particular mutated animal virus, changed itself in such a way the way that it causes great damage to human lungs..
That’s why Coronavirus is different from seasonal flu, or H1N1 or any other type of influenza.... this one is slippery AF. And it’s a lung eater...And, it’s already mutated AGAIN, so that we now have two strains to deal with, strain s, and strain L....which makes it twice as hard to develop a vaccine.
We really have no tools in our shed, with this. History has shown that fast and immediate closings of public places has helped in the past pandemics. Philadelphia and Baltimore were reluctant to close events in 1918 and they were the hardest hit in the US during the Spanish Flu.
Factoid: Henry VIII stayed in his room and allowed no one near him, till the Black Plague passed...(honestly...I understand him so much better now). Just like us, he had no tools in his shed, except social isolation...
And let me end by saying....right now it’s hitting older folks harder... but this genome is so slippery...if it mutates again (and it will). Who is to say, what it will do next.
Be smart folks... acting like you’re unafraid is so not sexy right now.
#flattenthecurve. Stay home folks... and share this to those that just are not catching on.
This is from a friend of a friend, xxxx at xxxxxx. She's a research associate in a basic science lab.
Feeling confused as to why Coronavirus is a bigger deal than Seasonal flu? Here it is in a nutshell. I hope this helps. Feel free to share this to others who don’t understand...
It has to do with RNA sequencing.... i.e. genetics.
Seasonal flu is an “all human virus”. The DNA/RNA chains that make up the virus are recognized by the human immune system. This means that your body has some immunity to it before it comes around each year... you get immunity two ways...through exposure to a virus, or by getting a flu shot.
Novel viruses, come from animals.... the WHO tracks novel viruses in animals, (sometimes for years watching for mutations). Usually these viruses only transfer from animal to animal (pigs in the case of H1N1) (birds in the case of the Spanish flu). But once, one of these animal viruses mutates, and starts to transfer from animals to humans... then it’s a problem, Why? Because we have no natural or acquired immunity.. the RNA sequencing of the genes inside the virus isn’t human, and the human immune system doesn’t recognize it so, we can’t fight it off.
Now.... sometimes, the mutation only allows transfer from animal to human, for years it’s only transmission is from an infected animal to a human before it finally mutates so that it can now transfer human to human... once that happens..we have a new contagion phase. And depending on the fashion of this new mutation, thats what decides how contagious, or how deadly it’s gonna be..
H1N1 was deadly....but it did not mutate in a way that was as deadly as the Spanish flu. It’s RNA was slower to mutate and it attacked its host differently, too.
Fast forward.
Now, here comes this Coronavirus... it existed in animals only, for nobody knows how long...but one day, at an animal market, in Wuhan China, in December 2019, it mutated and made the jump from animal to people. At first, only animals could give it to a person... But here is the scary part.... in just TWO WEEKS it mutated again and gained the ability to jump from human to human. Scientists call this quick ability, “slippery”
This Coronavirus, not being in any form a “human” virus (whereas we would all have some natural or acquired immunity). Took off like a rocket. And this was because, Humans have no known immunity...doctors have no known medicines for it.
And it just so happens that this particular mutated animal virus, changed itself in such a way the way that it causes great damage to human lungs..
That’s why Coronavirus is different from seasonal flu, or H1N1 or any other type of influenza.... this one is slippery AF. And it’s a lung eater...And, it’s already mutated AGAIN, so that we now have two strains to deal with, strain s, and strain L....which makes it twice as hard to develop a vaccine.
We really have no tools in our shed, with this. History has shown that fast and immediate closings of public places has helped in the past pandemics. Philadelphia and Baltimore were reluctant to close events in 1918 and they were the hardest hit in the US during the Spanish Flu.
Factoid: Henry VIII stayed in his room and allowed no one near him, till the Black Plague passed...(honestly...I understand him so much better now). Just like us, he had no tools in his shed, except social isolation...
And let me end by saying....right now it’s hitting older folks harder... but this genome is so slippery...if it mutates again (and it will). Who is to say, what it will do next.
Be smart folks... acting like you’re unafraid is so not sexy right now.
#flattenthecurve. Stay home folks... and share this to those that just are not catching on.
Posted on 3/17/20 at 10:21 pm to prplhze2000
Thought I was about to see a dog being served over rice
Posted on 3/17/20 at 10:22 pm to prplhze2000
It was an associate professor this morning...
Posted on 3/17/20 at 10:22 pm to prplhze2000
It’s the Wu Flu but remember that only Wu Tang is for the children.
Posted on 3/17/20 at 10:22 pm to prplhze2000
quote:Seems legit..
This is from a friend of a friend
Posted on 3/17/20 at 10:22 pm to prplhze2000
love the mass FB post
Posted on 3/17/20 at 10:23 pm to prplhze2000
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She's a research associate in a basic science lab.
I don’t know what exactly a basic science lab is but I’m sold on these credentials
Posted on 3/17/20 at 10:24 pm to L5UT1ger
And that's why I'm asking if legit or not?
Posted on 3/17/20 at 10:24 pm to prplhze2000
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This post was edited on 10/19/21 at 12:00 am
Posted on 3/17/20 at 10:25 pm to prplhze2000
I thought the other post said this was posted by the LSU Professor
Posted on 3/17/20 at 10:26 pm to prplhze2000
Scientifically, sounds like a good documentary about origins of viruses. I'm not sure anyone is outright disputing any thing you posted.
There is dispute about the "flatten the curve".
It's just seems like we (scientists, etc) are trying to mathematically determine the future of this unknown virus. I don't think it's that straightforward.
But, I also admit, I don't know for sure either way
There is dispute about the "flatten the curve".
It's just seems like we (scientists, etc) are trying to mathematically determine the future of this unknown virus. I don't think it's that straightforward.
But, I also admit, I don't know for sure either way
Posted on 3/17/20 at 10:28 pm to biglego
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I don’t know what exactly a basic science lab is but I’m sold on these credentials
All that extra stuff in those fancy science labs is just for show any way. They got a stack of Mardi Gras cups to put viruses and medicine and shite in, a box of straws to mix them up, and a microwave if you need to heat something. Just the basics.
Posted on 3/17/20 at 10:30 pm to prplhze2000
It's an interesting theory.
I don't think it's crazy to think that perhaps Chinese researchers were researching SARS-like coronaviruses to develop vaccines and treatments, but this one may have accidentally gotten out, and it's very dangerous to people. I think that's why we may be seeing such a higher panic from higher ups all over the world. People are scared of this virus like I have never seen anything before, and it's for a reason that I'm sure the general public is not being let everything on about.
I don't think it's crazy to think that perhaps Chinese researchers were researching SARS-like coronaviruses to develop vaccines and treatments, but this one may have accidentally gotten out, and it's very dangerous to people. I think that's why we may be seeing such a higher panic from higher ups all over the world. People are scared of this virus like I have never seen anything before, and it's for a reason that I'm sure the general public is not being let everything on about.
This post was edited on 3/17/20 at 10:38 pm
Posted on 3/17/20 at 10:48 pm to L5UT1ger
quote:
It was an associate professor this morning...
Yeah, not this load of BS again. People really will believe anything.
Posted on 3/17/20 at 10:50 pm to prplhze2000
And that research associate's name? Albert Einstein.
Posted on 3/17/20 at 11:04 pm to prplhze2000
Strange, the same thing was posted on the poli board and it was a male doctor that supposedly said this. Quit the shite.
Posted on 3/17/20 at 11:08 pm to prplhze2000
How about they did all this in a lab in Wuhan amd not in a frickin wet market..Does that make the mutation a little less "slippery"and a little more sinister?
Posted on 3/17/20 at 11:37 pm to prplhze2000
I read that and all I took away was BUY MORE TOILET PAPER!!
Posted on 3/18/20 at 12:53 am to prplhze2000
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prplhze2000
Are you high or just old and on Facebook?
This post was edited on 3/18/20 at 12:54 am
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