It’s Me Again. Now I’m Called Omicron via @TheTyee
I’ve travelled the world for two years and made great connections. Change is good!
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thetyee.ca/Analysis/2021/…
I’ve travelled the world for two years and made great connections. Change is good!
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thetyee.ca/Analysis/2021/…
"You probably thought that I was finishing up. Or took a long vacation to drink mojitos. No such luck. Last year, when I invited you, my good hosts, to meet my blessed variants, I smiled broadly at your puzzlement and shock.
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"So here I am again. Your favorite evolutionary anarchist. Changed, and ever changing.
"And now a “variant of concern” with your new Transformer toy-like name Omicron, with, count them, 50 mutations and possibilities you cannot yet fathom.
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"And now a “variant of concern” with your new Transformer toy-like name Omicron, with, count them, 50 mutations and possibilities you cannot yet fathom.
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"My blessed relative Delta had but 20 changes. And neither of us are Greek, but that joke is on you. Did you know there are 24 characters in the Greek alphabet? We’re getting pretty far along, aren’t we?
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"Let me, the undead, now be serious for a moment.
"The longer you allow me to persist, the more opportunities I will find to improve my fitness.
"And to my eternal delight, you continue to embolden me with abandon.
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"The longer you allow me to persist, the more opportunities I will find to improve my fitness.
"And to my eternal delight, you continue to embolden me with abandon.
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"Fewer than 10 per cent of the peoples of Africa have been vaccinated. Only 46 per cent in the Middle East. And so on.
"Even a modest virus knows that such inequity will always have biological consequences and provide more breeding ground for more blessed variants.
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"Even a modest virus knows that such inequity will always have biological consequences and provide more breeding ground for more blessed variants.
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