While the whole world is curious about how the virus may mutate and what can be the further developments, however new evidences suggests something else, though this is just can be one of many possibilities this counts as most of our possibilities have manifested in reality, it's just an analysis of current situations and most possible outcomes which are carefully calculated by taking account of the current situations and conditions in the pandemic.
Mutations
While most of us know and many European countries have been saying that the virus may mutate several times but it can be controlled and many of the scientists and “experts” have also declared the virus as a mere “flu” (Elke De Klerk, a Dutch general practitioner, says on the video, “We do not have a pandemic” and calls COVID-19 a “normal flu virus) which is not completely true (also refuted later by an independent fact check website called newswise), though we all have known that all the viruses mutate but the mutation rates have always been a matter of debate as they have been slower, this is the only reasons all the virus and flu medications are needed to be updated after a regular interval of, even after such stern warning by many world’s leading medical experts we have grown to be fond of these theory of the pandemic being addressed as flu which can be misleading and dangerous.
Knowing well that the mutation rate of this particular virus is enormously high, yet many individuals and medical practitioners and experts have been giving a lousy statement that the covid-19 virus is not a very dangerous one, such practitioners in my opinion should be punished by their respective law enforcement agencies, now that we have a very detailed history of the virus mutating in even more dangerous versions of itself (which was predicted way before it happened in this very blog) we now need to look at what can be the next stages of mutations and its complex nature can be.
Mutations and a more lethal virus variant may come from Asian and African countries.
As atrocious as this sounds to the people living on these continents. But this is just a blatant truth that is being spoken, yes!! There are high chances that these continents may breed the next lethal variant, and here is the reason why: the conditions in these countries are very habitable for the people, a perfect climate for people to have high immunity due to various unavoidable factors, which include the diet and other regular lifestyle habits. These continents are filled with diversity where India is the central hub of diversity the other nations also have similar cultural practices which are much unique and as a result, the herd immunity in these continents are more than/above the global average, the repercussions of this factor are very heavy on covid-19 mutation which is explained in the previous article.
How will COVID-19 mutate?
The mutation of covid-19 is so rapid that it changes its shape and characteristics rapidly, just as it happened in the case of Brazilian, UK and other variants of covid-19, and now in the case of Indian variant which is said to be more virulent, there is a huge chance that the Indian variant may be stronger than any other variant due to diversity and food habits across the nation, while the new variant is from Maharashtra now the next variant can emerge from other north Indian parts or rural India as the people of these areas lead a healthier life which makes their immunity more strong and we know from my past articles the link between immunity and mutation.
Now that we know that there is a chance that two corona variants can form a single variant which may or may not have both the characteristics of both the viruses, which may be a lethal combination, there are good chances that the virus may combine and make a new variant with other viruses the chances are moderate as the virus has shown a unique ability to combine with its self the next logical step to overcome would be to combine with other virus of same or other genus, in such a case the condition would be more precarious as it is likely that the R0 factor would be taken from COVID-19 and mortality rate would be taken from the other virus, theory of heredity says best characteristics of two individuals would make the next offspring, even if that is not the case then various permutation and combinations would emerge from such a union and the one most stable would survive by the theory of survival of the fittest in nature and hence the chances are moderate to high that such a mutant would come in existence not very far from today.
Is there a full stop to this menace?
Well the solution would be as complex as we make it to be, it's all about perspective, this can be explained by a small story that we all have heard in our past childhood, a kid was given a puzzle to solve and he solved it in 5 minutes when the teacher asked him how he did it he said there was a picture of a face on the backside of the puzzle he just made the face, as a result, the puzzle got solved, now we all have to see this challenge as a puzzle and try to solve it from all possible perspective, the easiest way would be by combining all the intellectuals we have around the world and make them share their research and ideas (we know best things come up with collaborative efforts) by doing so we may be able to reduce the damage caused by the virus (as it is impossible to delete/ completely remove the virus from the face of the earth) we will have to learn to live with it now, there is no other alternative.
The great solution
While many people have been trying to ease the situation by creating new medicines and many local/central and international forums have provided legal immunity to all the researchers against any lawsuit against unintentional harm caused by the vaccine which is again a debatable issue, but this was done in the light to promote and motivate the companies to work towards a vaccine which can ease the situation, but I feel that we have been looking at the problem from a very narrow perspective, we need to see this from a vantage point.
Taking inspiration from an old Indian
folklore/ epic of a fight between ma kali and rakthbeeja we can learn a few
things, when the problem of raktabeeja raised ma Kalika had a very different
solution, in the same way I feel that tackling the basic acids, protein or the DNA
of the virus (basically the surviving essence of the virus), which won't be very easy, but who knows by adapting to such an approach
there may be a possibility of finding cure to other viruses too, perhaps a new
methodology of creating vaccines will emerge from this, it is the right time
to experiment and devise a new ways to deal with a notorious virus such
as COVID-19. Perhaps, the new ways will pave a new dimension in vaccine-making techniques.
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