Ohio just put this out about this bug. Understanding this bug.

willy1947

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Great read and explains the virus well. Written by our local Ohio Dept of Health WHAT YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND, PLEASE READ:
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. 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.
 
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there a lot of humorous meme's, cartoons, t/p funnies and jokes, etc going around about this vires. but it's starting to be not as funny as it was.

i thought people were way over reacting about this crap. after reading what was written in the article above, not so sure now.

keep your powder dry and your firearms close.
 
I do not believe what I am hearing on the news as 100% truth. There is more to it than we are being told.

Here is an interesting point of view;

 
People are people and they are so damned spoiled and selfish they will do what they want to do regardless of what is asked. Some idiots in my county had a wedding and over 200 people attended. A couple from Arkansas attended knowing they were symptomatic. We now have 3 confirmed cases and 18 more test pending of people with corona symptoms.
 
To my understanding ALL flu viruses have came from (originated) animals.
Yes it’s a very touchy situation, trying to wade through all of the info from professional sources is tough. What one of them says may be almost the total opposite of another.

Stay safe folks. A good dose of common sense will go a long way. Seems the country is lacking this anymore.
 
Either the virus escaped a lab in Wuhan OR more likely a person working there sold his lab animal (BAT?) to a wet market and someone bought and ate it before it was thorougly cooked. Then the Communie party hid the fact and it spread like fire.

Trump slammed the travel door from China on Jan 30 and got bitched out. Most agree he should have acted sooner, much sooner. But he was focused on the (D)s half a55d impeachment for several weeks.
 
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