Imagine a screen composed of pixels. The top left is white, the bottom right should be black. You can only move one hue per pixel as you go white to black. In a screen of 4 pixels, you get 4 hues of white. In a screen of 1024 pixels, you get closer to black. This is what is...
...happening with SARS-CoV-2 right now. The more feeding ground it gets (transmission), the closer it gets from white to black- black being a variant that will not be stopped by the spike vaccines. The human screen measures 91 million infections, and variants are looking...
...too dark grey for comfort. If the vaccine manages to wipe out all the other colours, the dark greys may just drift to black. This will wind the clock back to February 2020- back to square 1. We must at all costs stop the virus from spreading because if we don’t get the jabs...
...fast enough into arms, grey will turn black- and we’ll need two vaccines to stop this from wrecking havoc on us. The SA variant (sorry @mvankerkhove) is already in multiple countries, & it is escaping mAb Rx. If we do not strangle transmission jab escape is about when, not if.
This will be the last time I use the term SA variant btw for the same reason I don’t call SARS-CoV-2 the way the orange goblin calls it. It’s known as B.1.351 or 501.v2 - the latter wins the Twitter character medal.
+ short correction to the pixel analogy. Colour change is not always 1 hue; it usually stays the same, or changes 1 hue. You need a lot of transmission (pixels) to get to black. 91 million infections is closer to 16K TVs, and most of us still have HD TVs at home. We have to...
... push this virus from the colour gamut potential of a 16K TV to that of a 1960’s 14” cathode ray tube box (which lacked perfect blacks)- by vaccination AND other measures, Vx’s being the mop up tool, not the panacea.

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