your terms are vague. ‘aggressive’: at what? more aggressively infectious, yes; more aggressively harmful to us, no. something can be ‘aggressive’ in its spread or ‘aggressive’ in its effects. a little clarity would help your hysterical and muddled thinking.
you really don’t understand biology. what makes omicron so ‘aggressive’ at spreading is that the majority of the viral load has adapted to the upper respiratory tract. this is how it propagates so well from person to person: it’s literally in our exhausted air and liquid particulates to a much higher degree. if omicron adapted to thrive more in the deeper lungs, i.e. was more aggressively harmful to us, by definition it would have a hard time being able to spread so much. we don’t go around coughing up the contents of our alveolar sacs on one another.
nevermind the fact that for a new strain to get the upper-hand over omicron’s infectiousness, it has to adapt and outcompete the highly successful throat-cell-adapted variant. it’s more likely, therefore, that this direction of development will continue towards more upper respiratory tract variations, which are even better at getting out of our bodies and doing their work of replication.
once again there is literally NO data at this point to support your claims. all hysteria and fearmongering. yawn. omicron does not ‘take longer’ to eventually wreck our lungs. people are being discharged and recovering much faster.
Omicron does infect lungs, just more slowly,
your article literally says that it develops in the lungs '10 times more slowly' than any previous variant. you do realize that our immune systems overcome a covid infection within 3-4 weeks, right? (i am not talking about the after-effects of long covid, which is not the same thing). so if a virus has a 2-3 week window to 'do its worst', and it spreads 10x more slowly in our vital/high-risk systems ... erm, figure it out?
i wonder why hospital admission average length-of-stays are dramatically lower during this wave? you make it sound like omicron cases are a ticking time bomb, and their lungs will be ruined given 3 months, or something. you are fucking illiterate, my guy. it's embarrassing trying to talk to you about this stuff.
and seems more effective in latching onto cells and more resistant to antibodies
which is to say, the spike protein has further mutated. we already knew this. no shit that antibodies made using mRNA instructions from 2 years ago are now poorly adapted to a different-shaped spike protein, 2 years down the line. the antibodies our immune systems are 'prepared' with are out of date. want to know what enables better, more robust antibodies? getting sick with omicron. which, by the way, according to studies in south africa, gives you
better retroactive protection against delta and other more serious variants. wowsers!
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/28/heal … delta.htmlthe most alarming thing from that article is the news that some people (potentially a good number in a huge wave of infections) have idiopathic immune responses to disease and sometimes have runaway effects from inflammation response. ok, yes, we knew that all along. it's no different from a person in their 30s dying unexpectedly of flu or pneumonia. in an extremely small number of cases, particularly in the youngest and healthiest, immune systems go into cytokine storms. there is little we can do about this except to develop better antivirals and therapeutic medicine. to build public health policy around the fact that 'some people have a funny turn' is absolute insanity.
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