To: teevee who wrote (213448 ) 8/8/2021 4:12:25 PM From: Rocket Red Respond to of 233807 There are now claims that Covid-19 vaccines have caused the Delta variant of the Covid-19 coronavirus to emerge. For example, here’s something that was posted on Facebook : (Photo: from Facebook) FROM FACEBOOKThere is however one big flaw in such claims. It has to do with the space-time continuum and the lack of a flux capacitor. Usually a cause has to come before an effect. For example, the song “Friday” by Rebecca Black did not cause the stock market crash of 1929. That’s because the song came out in 2011. And Rebecca Black to the best of our knowledge does not have a time machine. PROMOTED The same logic should apply when considering the origins of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) Delta variant. Take a look at the “Tracking SARS-CoV-2 variants” website from the World Health Organization (WHO) . This shows when the different “Variants of Concern” and “Variants of Interest” were first detected. As you can see, all of these variants emerged in 2020. Of the Variants of Concern, the Alpha variant was first found in the United Kingdom (U.K.) in September 2020, the Beta variant in South Africa in May 2020, the Gamma variant in Brazil in November 2020, and the Delta variant in India in October 2020. Of the Variants of Interest, the Eta variant was first detected in multiple countries in December 2020, the Iota in the U.S. in November 2020, the Kappa in India in October 2020, and the Lamba variant in Peru in December 2020. Next keep in mind when Covid-19 vaccination actually started in different parts of the world. As Krishna N. Das and Mayank Bhardwaj reported for Reuters , Covid-19 vaccination didn’t really begin in India until January 2021, about three months after the Delta variant had emerged. Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna did not receive emergency use authorization (EUA) from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for their Covid-19 mRNA vaccines until December 2020, the same month that the Astra-Zeneca Covid-19 vaccine first received authorization in the U.K. All of this was after all four of the Variants of Concern had already been spreading. MORE FOR YOU Coming Soon For The Unvaccinated: A $50 Monthly Paycheck Deduction From Your Employer County Hit Early By Delta Had More Breakthrough Cases, CDC Study Finds Joe Rogan Rants Against Covid-19 Vaccine Passports, Requirements Then look at where many of these variants have been first detected. Hmm, what do they have in common? Could it be that they have all failed to really control the spread of the Covid-19 coronavirus? The U.S., the U.K., India, Brazil, and Peru wouldn’t be the answer to the Jeopardy question, “what countries have done the best at containing the SARS-CoV-2?” These countries are not Taiwan, South Korea, and New Zealand. The U.S., the U.K., India, and Brazil have consistently at or near the top of the Johns Hopkins University Coronavirus Resource Center list of countries with the most reported Covid-19 cases in the world. Peru has topped the globe with the highest per capita Covid-19 related mortality. This brings us to the real reason variants of the Covid-19 coronavirus have emerged. “They're multiplying” in the words of John Travolta from the movie Grease . In this case, they means the virus and not the hots for Olivia Newton-John. As I have described previously for Forbes , every time the virus infects a cell and uses the cell like a cheap motel to reproduce, the virus can make mistakes. The virus can be like that drunk person in an office party who decides to use the photocopy machine to make many copies of his or her butt. Each copy may be slightly off, resulting in butt variants when its the bottom line, so to speak, and virus variants when it comes to the Covid-19 coronavirus. Did Covid-19 Vaccines Cause Coronavirus Delta Variants? Here’s What The Timing Says (forbes.com)