I am also a lay person on this subject, even though I (now 78) is an old PhD in organic chemistry, never worked in medicines and took to reading medicinal chemistry in the last few years in retirement out of interest. On your comment, I took Omicron as the new variant and something like Delta as the old variant. That is how the roles get…
I am also a lay person on this subject, even though I (now 78) is an old PhD in organic chemistry, never worked in medicines and took to reading medicinal chemistry in the last few years in retirement out of interest. On your comment, I took Omicron as the new variant and something like Delta as the old variant. That is how the roles get reversed on what you said. New variant stays in URT and the old variant, having stayed longer in the body, can be in the lungs and blood stream. The old variant is also more pathogenic (disease causing), and in low resident concentrations can cause long covid symptoms. In the 20 months it has been around, Omicron itself has spawned many variants, labelled as alphabets and numbers, but the behaviour has remained the same. Not the kind of big difference we saw between Delta and Omicron. The present concern in the highly vaccinated West is not the illness from fresh infections, but the lingering illness from the past, long covid. If you have been following the other presentations by Dr. McMillan, you will know that this lingering illness from the past could be caused by vaccine remnants or virus remnants, not directly but by hurting body’s immune mechanisms.
In my comment, both the old and new variants were omicron, but I think I kind of understand what you are saying too. There are so many experts with so many different ideas that I don't understand. I'm pretty confused.
Thanks. For total clarity on the subject, please keep following only Dr. McMillan’s presentations. And when he combines with Dr. Shankara Chetty, it gets even more fascinating. Actually, we should look at this pandemic as two distinct parts, with clear, large difference between the two. Part 1 is 2020 and 2021, upto delta. There were a dozen variants in this part too, all highly pathogenic. Only a few were named alpha, beta, gamma, delta etc, needlessly so. Delta, which reigned the whole of 2021 was the most sickening of all causing mayhem everywhere. Whether this behaviour was part of natural evolution or was it a response to its face off with non stop vaccines - remains an open question. It was the first variant to face vaccines. Omicron, since Jan 2022, is part 2 of the pandemic, distinctly different in its biology and behaviour. Like those in Part 1 of the pandemic, Omicron variants too have remained close knit. No one explains why it was decided to call all of them omicron, though it was a sensible decision. Through the naming decisions of 2020 and 2021 cannot be reversed now, we, the common people should consider those two years as just one variant based. I feel that the retention of Omicron nomenclature for the past 20 months is an unsaid, uncomfortable admission by the formal experts that Omicron is a new virus from the same family, from human origins. However, for some reasons, everything remains covid-19 and SARS cov-2.
I am also a lay person on this subject, even though I (now 78) is an old PhD in organic chemistry, never worked in medicines and took to reading medicinal chemistry in the last few years in retirement out of interest. On your comment, I took Omicron as the new variant and something like Delta as the old variant. That is how the roles get reversed on what you said. New variant stays in URT and the old variant, having stayed longer in the body, can be in the lungs and blood stream. The old variant is also more pathogenic (disease causing), and in low resident concentrations can cause long covid symptoms. In the 20 months it has been around, Omicron itself has spawned many variants, labelled as alphabets and numbers, but the behaviour has remained the same. Not the kind of big difference we saw between Delta and Omicron. The present concern in the highly vaccinated West is not the illness from fresh infections, but the lingering illness from the past, long covid. If you have been following the other presentations by Dr. McMillan, you will know that this lingering illness from the past could be caused by vaccine remnants or virus remnants, not directly but by hurting body’s immune mechanisms.
In my comment, both the old and new variants were omicron, but I think I kind of understand what you are saying too. There are so many experts with so many different ideas that I don't understand. I'm pretty confused.
Thanks. For total clarity on the subject, please keep following only Dr. McMillan’s presentations. And when he combines with Dr. Shankara Chetty, it gets even more fascinating. Actually, we should look at this pandemic as two distinct parts, with clear, large difference between the two. Part 1 is 2020 and 2021, upto delta. There were a dozen variants in this part too, all highly pathogenic. Only a few were named alpha, beta, gamma, delta etc, needlessly so. Delta, which reigned the whole of 2021 was the most sickening of all causing mayhem everywhere. Whether this behaviour was part of natural evolution or was it a response to its face off with non stop vaccines - remains an open question. It was the first variant to face vaccines. Omicron, since Jan 2022, is part 2 of the pandemic, distinctly different in its biology and behaviour. Like those in Part 1 of the pandemic, Omicron variants too have remained close knit. No one explains why it was decided to call all of them omicron, though it was a sensible decision. Through the naming decisions of 2020 and 2021 cannot be reversed now, we, the common people should consider those two years as just one variant based. I feel that the retention of Omicron nomenclature for the past 20 months is an unsaid, uncomfortable admission by the formal experts that Omicron is a new virus from the same family, from human origins. However, for some reasons, everything remains covid-19 and SARS cov-2.