The Damn Gummint - part the second

The RRW are always condemning any attempts to perform social activity. It's been about a year since there's been an essay on the Walter Reed "universal" Covid vaccine. Given the reports today about the disassembly of the Covid tracking infrastructure, some updating is appropriate.

First, we have the report that experts (stupid Liberals all) have reached a consensus (more or less) that an Omicron-level variant in the next two years is about 20%. Interestingly, this report doesn't make clear that Covid-δ was a transmission for lethality trade. Should the next variant be a Covid-δ category virus, we're in deep shit.

"40% feels intuitively high. The main reason that 40% number could be off is if in today's world Omicron-like events are now much less likely than in the world of 2020-2021. However, I don't see an obvious reason for this to be the case," Bedford wrote in an email, noting that scientists are tracking highly mutated cryptic lineages in people who have been infected for long periods of time.

Which brings us to the Walter Reed universal Covid vaccine. The most recent report that search brings up is about a year old. This is not truly a universal vaccine, in the sense of targeting a low- to no-mutation portion of Covid, rather it carries multiple spikes. The description reads very like the Novavax approach.

The SpFN vaccine is a protein subunit nanoparticle vaccine platform, meaning it presents a fragment of a virus to the immune system to elicit a protective response. SpFN comprises multiple coronavirus Spike proteins linked to the surface of a multifaceted ferritin nanoparticle.

As my Pappy used to say, "when you let your guard down, that's when the other guy puts your lights out with a haymaker".