I still don't understand how this is even being deciphered. We know the tests don't work, we know viruses mutate and there will always be something else coming. Maybe not, maybe this is the last one, but how does one legitimately know if they "have omicron"? It just doesn't add up.
There seem to be many levels of deception here, and the contradictions vary depending which level captures you. No one can show us a virus, so there can be no known sequence, no way of distinguishing between variants, or even identifying them, and certainly no valid test or vaccine. As you say, it doesn't add up.
They have in fact isolated and documented the covid genome of different variants. It's the same as reading and saving the human genome, or the flu, or bacteria, or any other organism. There's multiple journal articles from multiple countries about isolating the virus and saving the genome. Then they do the same with people who are sick and compare the genomes. This is pretty basic biological science stuff.
We isolated virus from nasopharyngeal and oropharyngeal specimens, and characterized the viral sequence, replication properties, and cell culture tropism. We found that the virus replicates to high titer in Vero-CCL81 cells and Vero E6 cells in the absence of trypsin. We also deposited the virus into two virus repositories, making it broadly available to the public health and research communities.
I still don't understand how this is even being deciphered. We know the tests don't work, we know viruses mutate and there will always be something else coming. Maybe not, maybe this is the last one, but how does one legitimately know if they "have omicron"? It just doesn't add up.
There seem to be many levels of deception here, and the contradictions vary depending which level captures you. No one can show us a virus, so there can be no known sequence, no way of distinguishing between variants, or even identifying them, and certainly no valid test or vaccine. As you say, it doesn't add up.
They have in fact isolated and documented the covid genome of different variants. It's the same as reading and saving the human genome, or the flu, or bacteria, or any other organism. There's multiple journal articles from multiple countries about isolating the virus and saving the genome. Then they do the same with people who are sick and compare the genomes. This is pretty basic biological science stuff.
From the US: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7239045/
From Korea: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7045880/
From Turkey: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32936826/
From Australia: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32237278/