Viruses naturally attenuate towards becoming less lethal and more transmissible, that is how Pandemics like these end. I have naturally recovered, by you choosing to get this experimental treatment you are introducing evolutionary selective pressure for a more virulent pathogen with mechanisms for evading the human immune system. Your actions will proliferate variant strains and are extending this pandemic from this already endemic trajectory. Your decision to participate in these experimental trials will lead to a further postponement for me to return to work and is fortifies government over-reach that infringes upon my rights of freedom to travel and exist as a private citizen. You are complicit with manufacturing further risk to the 100+ Million fellow Americans who are naturally immune and hurt the efficacy of life-saving treatments such as monoclonal antibodies that have prevented thousands of deaths.
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Genuinely honest questions:
Is this process of proliferating more variant strains true for all vaccines then?
What about how in school we're taught that vaccines virtually eliminated a few viruses? I've seen some arguments about widespread improvement in hygiene being the reason etc
Other vaccines use a dead or weakened virus. The body recognizes that pathogen and creates a specific immunity for that pathogen. When an unspecified immunity is present it doesn't fully fight the infection but rather makes it more difficult, viruses that can survive and cause symptoms in the new population will be selected for. This decision will engineer and shape the progression of the viral evolution off the track it is naturally on which is less deadly and more transmissible. Certain diseases have different abilities to adapt. RNA viruses like these can very rapidly adapt which is particularly worrisome because of their non natural and highly effective transmissibility and ability to exist as an aerosol. We aren't sure if the British B1.1.7 strain was from a lab or just mutation but it was able to change 27 nucleotides and all on 1 protein. In humans naturally its reported around 1 nucleotide per month during this pandemic. The most likely natural explanation is that they were treating an immunocompromised patient with antibodies for a while and what emerged was a totally unique strain with the ability to better reinfect(unlikely) or bypass the vaccine or antibody based therapeutics.