Twists and turns it into an utterly pointless statement.

No individual immune system can be guaranteed to survive eating frigging nuts for god sake!....what an utterly pointless statement to make.

However, even with the strongest viruses (which this isn't) the human immune system can be predicted to defeat it until it weakens into the viral background.

Does anyone reading WE's posts believe that was the original intent of his statement? I know I don't.

I think perhaps the greater truth is that you are just one eyed.

The Omicron variant of the virus that causes COVID-19 likely acquired at least one of its mutations by picking up a snippet of genetic material from another virus - possibly one that causes the common cold - present in the same infected cells, according to researchers.

This genetic sequence does not appear in any earlier versions of the coronavirus, called SARS-CoV-2, but is ubiquitous in many other viruses including those that cause the common cold, and also in the human genome, researchers said.

Cells in the lungs and in the gastrointestinal system can harbor SARS-CoV-2 and common-cold coronaviruses simultaneously, according to earlier studies. Such co-infection sets the scene for viral recombination, a process in which two different viruses in the same host cell interact while making copies of themselves, generating new copies that have some genetic material from both "parents."

The same genetic sequence appears many times in one of the coronaviruses that causes colds in people - known as HCoV-229E - and in the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) that causes AIDS, Soundararajan said.

South Africa, where Omicron was first identified, has the world's highest rate of HIV, which weakens the immune system and increases a person's vulnerability to infections with common-cold viruses and other pathogens.

More research is needed to confirm the origins of Omicron's mutations and their effects on function and transmissibility. There are competing hypotheses that the latest variant might have spent some time evolving in an animal host.

In the meantime, Soundararajan said, the new findings underscore the importance of people getting the currently available COVID-19 vaccines.

"You have to vaccinate to reduce the odds that other people, who are immunocompromised, will encounter the SARS-CoV-2 virus," Soundararajan said.

No, I'm much too thick to recall remember.

Though I do recall that the winter jacket you recommended isn't even water proof.

As for WE I don't believe him, you can believe him if you want.....as he's proven such an honest person.

Edited by Stirlingsays (04 Dec 2021 12.09am)

Yup. Snowman rally in Lincolnshire. Very, very cold. And very, very grumpy locals.

Legend.