Actively killing viruses at source must be the optimum strategy
VIROLOGY, the understanding of coronavirus, is completely dependent, like all science, on abstract mathematics.
The number of “variants” is an arithmetical function of the total number of live, evolving viruses, regardless of nationalistic barriers, and the rate of spread of infection, R, is an exponential function of the number of live viruses.
These facts, quite separate from MPs’ opinions, determine that actively killing viruses at source, as we learnt 100 years ago, must be the optimum strategy, just as Eastern countries recognised, to depress those numbers.
For one year, UK TV has been full of people talking of themselves, without understanding biology of fixed, limited, viral action. Your impatience with lockdown, and desire to kiss elderly relatives, should be tempered by responsibility, lest you become an agent of death.
The US Republican Party under Trump, showed the world the most extreme picture of irresponsible, deceitful, ignorance in “civilisation”.
When other nations set out to kill viruses in January 2020, Britain produced the maximum possible number of live viruses for others to breathe in, until July, when the Government suggested the use of masks, not to kill viruses as in the Orient, the essential strategy, but to protect uninfected persons from inhaling deadly aerosol globules expressed from citizens who could not know they were infected.
Eventually, separating humans from each other does make viruses perish, but could never be as effective as actively exterminating viruses, by as many efficient means as possible, such as ultraviolet light, or a mask more scientifically designed than a flimsy cloth over the mouth.
When we discuss the UK response, maybe in 2023 instead of right now, perhaps we could perceive that nationalism prevented Brits finding higher beliefs consistent with this universe.
Neville Westerman Brynna