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Why is the Coronavirus a bigger deal than Seasonal
flu?
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Here it is in a nutshell. I hope this helps. Feel free to copy and paste this to others who don’t understand ...
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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, that's 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. Its 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 have 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 copy and
paste this to those that just are not catching on. 馃
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