Will we all get Covid-19 eventually ?

["Misfit"]

I have had a nasty cough for the last 8 years
I get a lot of panicked looks when out n about

 

[zouzounaki]

I am not sure on reading the paper (most of which goes over my head) that it changes the timeline of the disease for us.
It indicates it perhaps started a little earlier in China but beyond that it does not radically change the big picture of the timeline in relation to its spread to the rest of the world.

PDF of the paper here https://www.pnas.org/content/pnas/early/2020/04/07/2004999117.full.pdf

A lot of it goes over my head as well, but from a quick read it seems to be saying that most of the type A (first strain) cases are in america and australia?

 

[Crewella]

A lot of it goes over my head as well, but from a quick read it seems to be saying that most of the type A (first strain) cases are in america and australia?

Useful map?

https://metro.co.uk/2020/04/18/coronavirus-may-started-september-scientists-say-12576961/

 

[oldhippydude]

A lot of it goes over my head as well, but from a quick read it seems to be saying that most of the type A (first strain) cases are in america and australia?

It also says that there are two sub clusters of A and the ancestral genome is carried by four Chinese individuals from the coastal province of Guangdong.

So still a Chinese origin.

 

[RAPTOREX]

Nobody knows why SARS burnt itself out, but it was regionalised, more or less, maybe that's the big difference. CV is an expert in it's own right, it has no need to mutate, it's doing a grand job for itself, where humans beings are concerned.

Actually the do. SARS mutated into a harmless form. It's not that uncommon in viruses.
I think you miss understand how viruses procreate. They have no reproductive system. Therefor they use a reprogrammed host cell nucleus. This adds the hosts natural mutation, into the mix. Viruses don't mutate, the host mutates them. The virus doesn't choose to mutate. It's forced on it.

 

[Mawsley]

I fancy mutating. I fancy having an arm that’s also a spear, or has claws like Wolverine. Sorry, what was the question again?

 

[Crewella]

I fancy mutating. I fancy having an arm that’s also a spear, or has claws like Wolverine. Sorry, what was the question again?

I have to be honest ............. I think you might have already mutated ...........

 

[Mawsley]

I have to be honest ............. I think you might have already mutated ...........

That will explain my flea-sized penis. I had been wondering.

 

[Crewella]

That will explain my flea-sized penis. I had been wondering.

Blimey ............ I really didn't expect Google to come up with that!

 

["Misfit"]

Blimey ............ I really didn't expect Google to come up with that!

Best keep your legs crossed at night.