Plumbing whole new levels of batshit ....

[davidgillon]

Posted in another forum I frequent, which has a normally sensible coronavirus thread.

"genetically modified vaccines bind easily to common influenza and lead to the formation of new classes of coronaviruses."

You can't even call it an antivax post because the rest of it is claiming Chinese vaccines are safer because they're inactivated virus.

I gently* pointed out you have to go to kingdom level to get the last common ancestor of coronaviruses and flu viruses, and for humans kingdom level is animalia, so that's roughly equivalent to saying vaccines combine with humans to create new kinds of starfish, or worm, or tardigrade.

* For certain values of gently.

Comments

[radiantfracture]

Beautiful riposte, though.

Sympathy

[jesse_the_k]

"Tardigrade Viruses from Venus" would be a good band name.

Re: Sympathy

[davidgillon]

I always feel like tardigrade should be a synonym of retrograde for when you're moving too slow to notice, so make it "Tardigrade Slackers from Venus" ;)

[vass]

Well put. I for one welcome our novel tardigrade crisis.

[davidgillon]

:)