There “aren’t many places for the virus to go”, according to the lead scientist behind the AstraZeneca Covid vaccine who says Covid is unlikely to mutate into a much deadlier variant. The Telegraph has the story.
Dame Sarah Gilbert said that viruses tended to become less virulent over time as they spread through a population which was becoming more immune.
Although Dame Sarah said some genetic drift was to be expected, she said Covid would eventually become like other seasonal coronaviruses which cause the common cold and respiratory infections.
Speaking on a Royal Society of Medicine webinar about variants on Wednesday, Dame Sarah said: “The virus can’t completely mutate because its spike protein has to interact with the ACE2 receptor on the surface of the human cell, in order to get inside that cell.
“If it changes its spike protein so much that it can’t interact with that receptor, then it’s not going to be able to get inside the cell. So there aren’t very many places for the virus to go to have something that will evade immunity but still be a really infectious virus.”
She added: “We normally see that viruses become less virulent as they circulate more easily and there is no reason to think we will have a more virulent version of SARS-CoV-2.
“We tend to see slow genetic drift of the virus and there will be gradual immunity developing in the population as there is to all the other seasonal coronaviruses. There are four of them and they’ve been circulating for decades and we’re not even aware of them.
“So we already live with four different human coronaviruses that we don’t really ever think about very much and eventually SARS-CoV-2 will become one of those. The question of how long it’s going to take to get there and what measures we’re going to have to take to manage it in the meantime.” …
Professor Sharon Peacock, the Executive Director of the Covid U.K. Genomics Consortium, which monitors variants for the Government, also told the webinar: “It’s watch and wait, but delta is top of the list and other variants are not particularly concerning at the moment.
“It has been pretty quiet since delta emerged and it would be nice to think there won’t be any new variants of concern. If I was pushed to predict, I think there will be new variants emerging over time and I think there is still quite a lot of road to travel down with this virus.”
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I guess we should be grateful to the IMF for making it so clear that Dr Clauser was bang on target with his critique of the $cientific propaganda “climate crisis” scam.
And any country that wants/needs “money” from the IMF? (eg most in Africa).
Forget it – unless you toe the line on climate change, mRNA jabs, digital currency, freedom of speech, etc.
Interesting from Edward Dowd – the whole shit show is because The RPTB ie the Banking Families (mostly Jewish and that’s a Fact) can no longer print ever more money to rescue themselves from the mob, ie us thinkers, so they’re going to destroy the world so they can rise from the ashes.
It used to be did it not, that—– The Truth Will Set you Free? ———-Except now the truth gets you cancelled, ostracised, pilloried and sacked. No wonder truth seekers wait till they retire to speak some truth, where it is too late now to sack them.– To the Liberal Progressive Social Engineer there is only one truth —-Theirs. Whether it is race, gender, equality, diversity or climate, they are the ones who own the truth. No other truth (opinion) is acceptable or spitting fury will ensue. It must have been a nightmare for Galileo and Copernicus and so it is today with the Leftist Inquisition.
‘…..research shows that the more information partisans get, the deeper their disagreements become.’
‘…..being better at math made partisans less likely to solve the problem correctly when solving the problem correctly meant betraying their political instincts. People weren’t reasoning to get the right answer; they were reasoning to get the answer that they wanted to be right.’
‘”Nothing any ordinary member of the public personally believes about the existence, causes, or likely consequences of global warming will affect the risk that climate changes poses to her, or to anyone or anything she cares about,” Kahan writes. “However, if she forms the wrong position on climate change relative to the one that people with whom she has a close affinity — and on whose high regard and support she depends on in myriad ways in her daily life — she could suffer extremely unpleasant consequences, from shunning to the loss of employment.”
And there you have it.
It’s called: ‘(Identity) Protective Cognition: “As a way of avoiding dissonance and estrangement from valued groups, individuals subconsciously resist factual information that threatens their defining values.”
‘How politics makes us stupid’ Vox Apr 2014
What are the defining values of the IMF regarding climate change?
‘Climate change presents a major threat to long-term growth and prosperity, and it has a direct impact on the economic wellbeing of all countries.
The IMF has a role to play in helping its members address those challenges of climate change for which fiscal and macroeconomic policies are an important component of the appropriate policy response.
The Fund publishes research on economic implications of climate change and provides policy advice to our membership to help them capture the opportunities of low-carbon, resilient growth.’
IMF.org
The biggest funder of the IMF? That would be the U.S.A., run by the ‘climate emergency’ chicken little Democrats.
He who pays the piper etc. or, in other words, identity protective cognition.
But, as we have seen from Uxbridge, once the silly climate panic bills start arriving on the doorstep, reality in the shape of democracy intervenes…….and Biden is now phenomenally unpopular……
Up-tick Watch. 127 for rtsc, 89 for varmie, just 7 for you. Hmmn. Let’s see how it plays out.
btw, who is boss of the IMF these days?
LOL! The same people who have always been the boss…. America!….as they are the biggest net contributors…..surprise!!!
The current president of the IMF is Bulgarian Kristalina Georgieva, an environmental economist who was Vice-President of the European Commission under Jean-Claude Juncker from 2014 to 2016. In 2021, an independent inquiry determined that Georgieva had instructed staff at the World Bank to inflate data to make China look better during her tenure as Chief Executive.
The IMF might not be our friend.
It is good to see the mainstream commentariat approaching all these issues based on the “if I have my fingers in my ears I won’t hear anything I don’t want to” interpretation of science.
Hmm – a Nobel Prizewinning scientist! Must have something useful to teach us. Better cancel him.
It seems to me that he is broadly correct. The use of terms like “emergency” and “crisis” with regard to the weather & the climate are psychological problems. Nothing to do with our influence on the real world’s meteorological behaviour. A lot of it is pretty close to fraud, relying on the audience’s trust in them, while manipulating the definition of long standing definitions etc. For the avoidance of doubt, I’m thinking about global conditions to do with the weather, not local environment issues to do with pollution etc.
Fool…..just ……Follow The Science™️ or remember to Move At The Speed Of Science™️….but for God’s sake don’t Question The Science…!!
The pimply students at Fact Checker Central know best….!
Doesn’t the fool bloke know doing his own research is Dangerous….?
Forbes…”You Must Not ‘Do Your Own Research’ When It Comes To Science”
Harvard…”Support for “doing your own research” may be an expression of anti-expert attitudes rather than reflecting beliefs about the importance of cautious information consumption.
CNN….these four words are helping to spread vaccine (or put any word here) misinformation..’do your own research…’
New York Times….sceptics say do your own research..it’s not that simple…
can he not read??
Nobel Prize…..pffft….!!
Greenhouse Gases are not causing warming. Adding 1 billion people every 11 years, equivalent to 100 Londons*, building 100’s of concrete heat trapping mega-cities, slashing and burning critical rainforests, these are much more likely to warm the planet than life-sustaining beneficial gas Carbon Dioxide or cow flatulence.
I think we miss a trick when we attack the mad, hugely expensive, economy crippling, potentially murderous Net Zero policies of The West by not acknowledging that there is some human caused change in the climate. It might be best to point out more likely causes (see first paragraph) and somehow hope that governments realise that population growth control and management of forests will go much further than their pea-brained Net Zero nonsense in stabilising the environment.
*See most temperature weather maps of the UK and 90% of the time London is the warmest. Concrete absorbs and traps heat.
“Greenhouse Gases are not causing warming. Adding 1 billion people every 11 years, equivalent to 100 Londons*, building 100’s of concrete heat trapping mega-cities, slashing and burning critical rainforests, these are much more likely to warm the planet than life-sustaining beneficial gas Carbon Dioxide or cow flatulence.”
Inherently contradictory.
How so? The globalists are throwing trillions at a non existent problem, namely the lowering of so-called “greenhouse gas” concentrations. CO2 levels are at fairly normal levels, cow farts are not destroying the planet.
If humans ARE causing global warming it’s only because of the rapid proliferation of concrete heat trapping mega-cities (Sun energy absorbed by the concrete and released over time) and the destruction of cooling forests.
In the meantime there is nothing done about the very real issue of out of control population growth, almost all of it occurring in the countries that can least afford it and out of which said populations will exodus to escape poverty in order of magnitudes much greater than we currently see. We will be one of their prime destinations.
The clothes worn by Dr Clauser in the photo at the top of this article tells me that he must be taking a mid-July holiday in Norfolk this year….
The problem with climate computer models is that the people working on them decide what answer they want from them, and distort the data input to give the answer they want. How many computer modelling results have proven to be wrong over Covid, and now equally or even less accurately on climate? Come on, we all know the answer to that, so why are idiots in government basing policies on them? The green industry, financed by massive government subsidies taken from our taxes, has a vested interest in publicising the rubbish results from these models and opinions of scientists biased by their funding from the so-called green industry while shutting down top independent scientists who are telling the truth about climate.
Today, Monday, from the BBC website, in need of proper fact checking:
Real-time Global Temperature
(updated every 1-2 minutes)
57.44°F / 14.13°C
Deviation: 0.24°F / 0.13°C
Stations processed last hour: 61101
Last station processed: Cordova, United States
For source/info see:
https://temperature.global
Now tell me that is the problem, the last 150 years are graphed here
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Do you see a problem, I don’t?
I am becoming increasingly concerned about TV debates, especially on GB News. They are all biased debates because they never have a scientist on the programme. All they do is give publicity to those promoting climate alarmism.