COVID and Aliens
COVID, “It is what it is”, it’s here to stay and now we have to live with it. Please don’t let the news media control you, just remember this, “Treat news media sites just like a reality TV show.” Both need ratings and both will do what is necessary to get them. They’ll bend the truth, use scare tactics and even lie to get you to watch them. Don’t get sucked up into their quagmire of bull shit.
My recent post talked about some of the tools ghost investigators use on their TV shows, and how some of the tools they use just don’t work or are misused. Yet viewers get caught up in their BS and believe everything they see and hear. My advice, “Question what you see and what you hear, including my stuff.”
There will be new variants of COVID this year, currently we’re dealing with Omicrom, and Flurona is just around the corner. Flurona is a combination of simultaneous infection of COVID-19 and the seasonal flu. In other words you could get the flu while testing positive for COVID or versa visa, either way, COVID is here to stay and we have to adapt.
Now I’m a “Vax” person because I believe it helps. My wife and I are vaccinated and my daughter who is also vaccinated tested positive a few weeks back, but my wife and I tested negative. My daughter suffered minor nasal congestion, yet my wife and I had no symptoms. We all live in the same house, so go figure. I’m not against “Non Vax” people and will fight for their right not to be vaccinated, because I believe it’s up to the individual to do what they think is best for them. Now if you do ever test positive, don’t be a douche, follow the doctor’s quarantine schedule and keep fellow family members and others safe. Doctors are trained professionals and know more about quarantines and keeping people safe, than some idiot who posted their opinion on Facebook or Twitter.
But what about quarantines? This is nothing new, we’ve been doing it for centuries and NASA does, especially when we went to the moon.
When the Apollo Astronauts went to the Moon, NASA was concerned about the possibility of dangerous microorganisms from the Moon contaminating Earth. So the astronauts were quarantined three weeks before launch to reduce the odds they would catch anything that NASA would later need to identify as terrestrial or lunar. There was also a second 21-day quarantine that started as soon as the astronauts stepped off the moon and closed the hatch on the lunar module. When the astronauts splashed down in the ocean, the rescue crew had to send a swimmer to the capsule to open the hatch and throw in biological isolation suites for the astronauts to put on. This enabled NASA to also quarantine the space suits the astronauts wore too!
When it comes to Aliens visiting this planet, that’s a whole new can of worms. Can they infect us with viruses they’re already carrying but immune to, and can we infect them with our viruses? If our metabolism is completely different and we don’t share any type of similar DNA, then maybe not.
On Earth we share DNA similarities with all different types of mammals, especially primates. Previous studies with chimpanzees show they can contract common cold viruses from humans and even Ebola. Currently to protect wild primates from the transfer of COVID-19, national parks across Africa have either stopped or limited tourist activities and also limited researcher access to primate populations.
But what about mutating viruses?
C&EN Chemical and Engineering News:
Many events must align for a virus to spill over and become established in people. First, the original host—the species that serves as the virus’s so-called reservoir—needs to rub elbows with people at a time when it is shedding enough virus for people to get exposed to a significant amount. Next, the virus has to be equipped with the molecular machinery to enter human cells. Specifically, it needs the right protein to bind to a receptor on a human cell, allowing it to slip inside. Then, it has to be able to replicate and to infect other cells, and while doing so, evade the human immune system.
With Aliens visiting our planet, their viruses could have the unusual machinery to intelligently mutate their protein to bind to a receptor on a human cell. This could be due to the Alien’s evolutionary past, or maybe the ability of the Alien’s protein to adapt to other species cells based on the different life forms the Aliens have encountered in the past. Then there’s the “viral attack”. Scientifically mutating an Alien virus enabling it to bind to a receptor on a human cell, either done purposely by the Aliens or by humans. Either way, it would be a game changer especially if a vaccine couldn’t immediately be created.
When COVID-19 appeared, it was easier to create a vaccine because Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) and Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) are two diseases caused by coronaviruses and are closely related to the virus that causes COVID-19. Researchers began working on developing vaccines for these diseases after they were discovered in 2003 and 2012.
None of the SARS vaccines ever made it past the first stages of development
and testing, because the virus disappeared. One MERS vaccine
(MVA-MERS-S) successfully completed a phase 1 clinical trial in 2019.
As soon as the genetic code became available for SARS-CoV-2 (the virus that causes COVID-19), scientists began designing the vaccine, which provides instructions for cells to build the unique spike protein for SARS-CoV-2.
So with COVID-19 we had a jump start creating a vaccine due to the previous research and vaccine developments from 2003 and 2012. But if a completely new virus shows up that is not similar to any other virus we’ve experienced, then scientists would have to start from the beginning by identifying its genetic code before they could create a vaccine. If the genetic code is exterrestrial, meaning not from this planet, then it would be even harder to identify. Thus why NASA incorporated quarantines for the Apollo Moon missions.
It’s my opinion Aliens have been visiting this planet for decades if not centuries, so if an Alien virus was able to infect humans, it would have done it by now. (I suppose.) But has any of our viruses infected Aliens? Well, that’s a question that will be answered when we learn more about those strange crafts our military can’t catch or identify. But as for our current situation with COVID and the many strains that will be infecting us in the future, what can we do?
Unfortunately we’ll have to live with it and adjust. Life goes on and we all need to take the necessary steps to protect ourselves even if we’re vaccinated or not. But the one thing we must not do is, let the news media scare us into completely changing our lives. With proper precautions, we can still live some-what normal lives. During the first year of COVID, my family and I didn’t stay home, we went camping, fishing, sight-seeing and hiking. We kept to ourselves, but we had one great summer compared to others who sat home and complained. Like the old saying, “If life gives you Lemons, then make a Lemon Margaritta, or Tom Collins or Long Island Iced Tea”. (I think that’s how the old saying goes. 🙂 )
Remember, the News Media will use scare-tactics to get you to watch them, thus giving them good ratings, do your own research, and do whatever you think is right for you and your family to stay safe. And as for a possible Alien virus in the future? Hopefully it won’t happen due to the difference of genetics between us and them, but then again… who knows.
Blog info links:
https://www.space.com/apollo-11-astronauts-quarantined-after-splashdown.html
Jane Goodall
https://janegoodall.ca/our-stories/chimps-risk-covid-19/
Chemical Engineer News
https://cen.acs.org/biological-chemistry/infectious-disease/How-do-viruses-leap-from-animals-to-people-and-spark-pandemics/98/i33
Portal.ct.gov on SARS https://portal.ct.gov/-/media/Coronavirus/Community_Resources/Vaccinations/Print-Materials/Fact-Sheets/Development_English.pdf
Category: The Z-Files
