Discovery of New HIV Variant Sends Warning for COVID Pandemic

Infectious disease expert William A. Haseltine cautions that a coronavirus variant could emerge with the transmissibility of Omicron and the deadliness of the original SARS.

HIV and the resultant AIDS phenomena are now more of an equal opportunity infection than ever before, and you don't have to be a cocksucker or an ass fucker to get it. Guess we'll have to come up with some new gay jokes, because AIDS = Another Infected Dick Sucker and AIDS = Asshole Injected Death Sentence really no longer apply. That said, if you've taken the vaccine, you might as well be a cocksucker.

HIV and SARS-CoV-2 are both RNA viruses. Do the factors driving their evolution differ, and if so, how?

The selective pressure on a virus is to survive, just like it is for any other organism. What the virus wants to do is get from one person to another—get in and get out. Because HIV is so poorly transmitted, its best strategy is to get in and stay there for a very long time and rely on a predictable behavior—sex—to get out.

For SARS-CoV-2, the virus depends for its existence on reinfecting people who have been infected the year before. We are fighting millions of years of evolution of an organism that knows how to fool our immune system and get into us again and again. One thing we have seen the viral variants doing is getting faster and faster [at transmission]. Delta is faster than Alpha. Omicron is faster than Delta. And BA.2 Omicron is faster than BA.1 Omicron. There are many ways for this virus to mutate to increase its transmissibility. Whether any of those will affect virulence is unclear.

Basically, anyone who has taken any of the vaccines has a greater chance of contracting HIV. In a nutshell, you're screwed. Now are you beginning to understand why we don't "trust the science?"

More information: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/discovery-of-new-hiv-variant-sends-warning-for-covid-pandemic/