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Sunday, January 22, 2023

More immune pressure on the virus means that mutating viruses will adapt and overcome immune pressure. Not good.


A presentation by Geert Vanden Bossche in Rapperswil, Switzerland, and November 26, 2022.

Our experts are doing ad hoc analysis. Full analysis of the mutation of the virus, seeing that it's not going in a good direction.  The most neglected field is immunology.  We are putting more and more pressure on the virus.  The virus will escape this pressure.  Why will the virus escape?  It's very easy: because we cannot control the replication, spread, and transmission of the virus, we leave the door open to the virus to select mutants that can overcome the kind of pressure that we are putting on the virus, which is not sufficient to tame the virus, which is not sufficient to prevent the virus from replicating.  

5:10  What society needs to know is where is this madness going?  What is going to be the end stage of this evolution, right?  What is the driving force behind the converting mutations?  It's immune pressure.  But why and how is it evolving?  

5:40  Even scientists can contract willful blindness.  As long as they are happy they can publish.  The vast majority of scientists are having a lot of fun right now because they can publish like hell.  In all these peer review journals, every day there is something new to report about.  I call them the "variant spotters."  So all of these biological assays, I'm not going to go into detail, are interesting to look at the effect of the mutation.  [interesting.  I wonder how long it takes for viruses to mutate.]  But it never predicts what is going to happen, because basically, no one sees the forest for the trees.  Because what these people don't understand is this very complex interaction between the virus and the immune system at the population level.  Of course, you need to draw from several fields to be able to understand this.  You need to have a good understanding of virology, of immunology, of course, and since we are massively intervening with vaccines, you also need to have a good understanding of vaccinology.  

6:43  So what they're all agreeing upon is that the kind of evolution that we're seeing of the virus right now is not a random change that is happening, it is clearly driven by immune pressure, by immune selection pressure.