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Right now, as you read this, you are immediately surrounded by 9000+ viruses every second
Posted on 12/22/21 at 6:56 pm
Posted on 12/22/21 at 6:56 pm
quote:NYTimes
Scientists have surmised there is a stream of viruses circling the planet, above the planet’s weather systems but below the level of airline travel. Very little is known about this realm, and that’s why the number of deposited viruses stunned the team in Spain. Each day, they calculated, some 800 million viruses cascade onto every square meter of the planet.
Generally it’s assumed these viruses originate on the planet and are swept upward, but some researchers theorize that viruses actually may originate in the atmosphere. (There is a small group of researchers who believe viruses may even have come here from outer space, an idea known as panspermia.)
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Hoyle and Wickramasinghe developed the model of panspermia at the centre of the recent study. The new paper is a review of “the key experimental and observational data gathered over the past 60 years”, write the authors, “consistent with or predicted by the Hoyle-Wickramasinghe (H-W) thesis of Cometary (Cosmic) Biology”.
The H-W model holds, the authors state, “that life was seeded here on Earth by life-bearing comets as soon as conditions on Earth allowed it to flourish (at or just before 4.1 billion years ago); and living organisms such as space-resistant and space-hardy bacteria, viruses, more complex eukaryotic cells and organisms, … perhaps even fertilised ova and plant seeds, may have been continuously delivered ever since to Earth helping to drive further the progress of terrestrial biological evolution.”
In other words, the researchers suggest that abiogenesis did not happen on Earth and the main source of genetic novelty is not caused by the selection of naturally occurring advantageous mutations, but rather comes from a rain of extra-terrestrial living matter that integrates itself, via neo-Lamarckian mechanisms such as horizontal gene transfer, into the genomes of terrestrial life.
Cosmos Magazine
So, what do you believe? Is this another theory (this is widely disputed since long before Covid-19) about the origins of the virus. Is it an alien visitor from space? Or a Chinese /Democrat plot?
Posted on 12/22/21 at 7:26 pm to HubbaBubba
Despite being surrounded by viruses we all have an immune system which functions optimally when we get rest, exercise, healthy food, fresh air and sun. Unfortunately the pharmaceutical industry makes no profits when we choose healthy lifestyle habits.
Posted on 12/22/21 at 7:28 pm to HubbaBubba
That’s exactly why I wear four masks and a face shield.
Posted on 12/22/21 at 8:20 pm to HubbaBubba
Yeah bro I just put on another mask over my first 5. Thanks a lot!
Posted on 12/22/21 at 8:22 pm to TDsngumbo
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That’s exactly why I wear four masks and a face shield.
…and levitate 6’ off the ground to prevent touching anything or anyone.
Posted on 12/22/21 at 8:24 pm to HubbaBubba
Has anyone sought the opinion of Lord Fauci on this matter? You know he is all about the science!
Posted on 12/22/21 at 9:40 pm to HubbaBubba
This is why masks and such are dumb. You’re weakening your immune system by trying to prevent contact with viruses.
Your immune system stays strong by figuring off bacteria and viruses you come into contact with
Your immune system stays strong by figuring off bacteria and viruses you come into contact with
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