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To: Winfastorlose who wrote (755270)1/17/2022 2:07:34 PM
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The vaccines have become completely useless. OR. the latest variant was designed to evade the spike protein antibodies. In text form, the new omicron variant has the expected 50 mutations at this point two years into the pandemic, but, all its mutations are in the spike protein and nonsynonymous*. Which is seen from these two scatter plots:


Here is a scatter plot of all variants with their total mutations. The dark line shows about 1 mutation every 2 weeks and omicron is very close to the expected 50 total. Nothing unusual.


This is a scatter plot of time vs mutations just in the spike protein. Omicron is a massive outlier and has no ancestors that are in circulation at this time. I think it came out of a freezer and was made from a sample from April 2020.

Good news though, it is mostly an upper respiratory infection, or cold.

*mutations in the RNA can be synonymous and still select for the same amino acid or nonsynonymous and change the amino acid in the assembled protein. Nature tends to play around with synonymous mutations to optimize for each host, humans might prefer Gs over As. An impatient person would eschew these synonymous mutations and insert only nonsynonymous mutations, just what is seen in omicron.
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