3 July

Last Covid post for the day, but maybe the most important. Right now we’re actually living multiple pandemics, at the same time. Not Covid, but Covids, plural. Two key points: 1) the time between new variants is decreasing quickly (graph below), they’re arriving faster and faster, and 2) the new strains and variants aren’t strongly related to each other. This means we have multiple Covids all happening at once, and we’re adding more and more Covids at ever increasing speed (see the current list under the graph). We have epidemics piling on top of epidemics. There’s also little cross-immunity between strains - if you get one, it provides no immunity to another. Covid is literally feasting on us. Because we’re not restricting its spread, it’s evolving in every possible way at once, generating new variants and strains at will. And our vaccines are based on ONE strain, now long extinct. You can see where this will end, total failure of the vaccines. And we’re doing nothing else. We have to stop it spreading.