18 December

The sleeper story of the soccer world cup is the beauty pageant for camels being held alongside, at the same time. 30,000 camels entered. A bit amusing, but there’s a very serious danger here. Camels carry and transmit a relative of Covid, called MERS. It’s much more deadly than Covid, about 30-35% of people who have been known to be infected with MERS have died. 1 in 3. Making it one of the deadliest infectious diseases in the world. Why this is super dangerous, to the point scientists pleaded before the World Cup not to hold the two events together (nobody listened, Qatar invested $220 billion in the World Cup, and money talks), is that as MERS and Covid are related, if a person is infected with both, it could lead to a horrifying Covid-MERS hybrid, as transmissible as Covid, and as lethal as MERS. There are 2.5 million fans at the soccer next door, and many are attending both events. There’s a ‘mystery virus’ sweeping the World Cup right now. It’s infected some of the French team. And of course every second person has Covid these days, so the chances of MERS finding a person already infected with Covid is very high.