By Mary Goetsch
Aurora, Ill.
I finally found out what the official classification of the COVID-19 virus is! The exclamation point is included because of the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses evidently was at the bottom of the Google browser priority. I found the answer (Type IV, SARS-1 and MERS) by searching these words: Baltimore Virus Classification SARs CoV-2.
My concern is science disagreement and the continual changing of Wikipedia browser access Internet priority. In Winter 2020, Time-Life put out its special revised reissue entitled, “The Science of Epidemics.” An article on Dr. David Ho researching COVID-19 and comparing it to HIV in the search for treatment labeled it an “RNA Virus like HIV.” It implies SARS COV2 is a retrovirus and I always have referred it as such. See The Voice August 26, 2022 for my Commentary: Anti-COVID vaccine clarity.
There is a big difference between SARS-1, which extinguished in 2002 when fewer than 1,000 died, according to my memory of articles read. SARS Cov-2 seems to be here to stay, never mind vaccines. The prognosis to be similar to AIDS where there can be no vaccine. Antiiviral treatments are available. I am worried the government is exhausting resources on COVID testing and vaccines which probably will evade the evolving virus unless vaccines are adjusted every few months.
My opinion as an outlier graduate school drop-out in molecular biology at UT-Austin in 1984 is that SARS Cov-2 is Type VI. To classify it as Type IV gives Big Pharma the rationale to exhaust resources with continual vaccines and testing.
Now, on my related concern of the monopoly of Internet and browsing: Google has the power to make information inaccessible and has the power to make one’s E-mail inaccessible! As a private citizen, since December 19 I am unable to gain access to G-mail without a mobile phone, or, text capability. It happened without notice some time after I gained access to the ICTV information and signed up for its database at ictv.global. I hope that AT&T will complain about Google’s forcing mobile phone to gain access to E-mail, unless one has a computer at home. Or, maybe AT&T is going to push its wireless and force users out of land lines. We pay enough. I pay basically approximately $50. a month and incur long-distance charges to call wireless phones not with AT&T. It is 10 cents per minute, plus taxes and fees.
Are the pandemic and Google power part of a conspiracy to force citizens into surveillance and a virtual economy? My coping is to read and learn all I can learn on retroviruses. We have to look at it as part of evolution.
The figure is that eight percent of our genome DNA consists of, or, is from retroviral RNA-to-DNA which patched into us over the course of evolution. Regardless of whether SARS Cov-2 is truly a retrovirus, or, simple RNA, its RNA does take a reapplication step of converting to DNA. The question becomes how much, or, how often wold it get into our genome.
The first censorship was in blacking out claims that vaccines (mRNA) could enter our own DNA. These claims ought to be considered partially true rather than completely false.