Viral Evolution

While it is true viruses are sometimes misread by the host and mutate (like a cold virus for example), this week I want to speculate how the SARS-CoV-2 will and is causing societal evolution. Viruses have always been agents of evolution as they attach and pull away from our DNA and RNA, but this global pandemic is going to fundamentally change societies and the way we interact...especially in the short term. If and when a vaccine is developed, some sense of normality should be re-established, but societies will never be the same...like 9/11 and the 2008 crash. So get out your crystal ball and let's think about what's coming around the bend.

Last year, the Dept. of Health and Human Services ran a 7 month long exercise code named "Crimson Contagion," a dry run response to a global pandemic which started in China and expected more than 100 million Americans to become ill.

The simulation highlighted several failures in our preparedness for such a catastrophe.

Where Oh Where Has Our Little Government Gone
Gone to the Oligarchs Every One

To mix a meta
sip a quarentini
Here's lookin' at you kid

we. have. no. federal. government.

It has never been more evident, as exhibited by the lack of leadership during this crisis. The U. S. government is doing nothing to prepare. They are only a distracting and negative influence. At best.

I just saw this for the first time, this morning, but this is pretty much where my line of thinking was taking me, yesterday. What do you think...does this look credible?:

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1239755910580322304.html?fbclid=IwAR3...

Here's our summary of this vitally important paper:

Clowns in the Corona Circus

Time for one of these?

@JtC (are their ways to embed a yes/no counter in an essay page?)

This is an automated translation of the German article of "Der Spiegel - Science"
here. (I did not edit it)

The risky race of the pharmaceutical companies