(04-26-2023, 04:40 AM)Snarl Wrote:(04-26-2023, 03:02 AM)Ninurta Wrote:(04-25-2023, 11:22 AM)Snarl Wrote: The weaponization of viruses has been studied and practiced for decades. Lots of folks have been lead to believe Nixon shut it all down and it stayed down. There were Presidents who followed after Nixon.
Some of this is so accurate I nearly shit a brick when I saw it.
That IS pretty spooky!
Did you know that the human genome has bits and pieces of viral DNA that was injected 50,000 years ago and is still hanging around? It may have made some folks what they are today!
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That revelation came long after I credentialed.
Now, I do believe there was an advanced civilization of humans dominating the Earth some 80K to 65K years ago. I firmly believe they were way 'more' than we are today.
I've thought about it, in connection with those DNA snippets that saved my ass from covid. I caught the covid twice, and hardly noticed it. The first time, I'd have not known it at all if it weren't for a test that showed me positive. No symptoms at all. The second time, which was during the "omicron" rush, was about like a mild cold, for just a day, then done. As it turned out, I have a peculiar snip of Neanderthal DNA that fought it off, and fought it off pretty well.
Knowing that there are rogue bits of viral DNA in the human genome, I have wondered if that bit of Neanderthal DNA isn't perhaps a bit of viral DNA injected into a neanderthal way back when that carried forward and did it's job still to this day.
Some information:
As it turns out, there are TWO Neanderthal snippets affecting covid, one that increases the potential for severity, and one that decreases it. This should be thought about deeply in the context of ancient civilizations. I was tested for them, and it was found that I had an 82% chance of not even noticing covid at all, despite the fact that I have a crap ton of covid "risk factors" like old age and smoking.
I got the SNP probably from my ma, but my son did not get it from me - even though he carries more Neanderthal DNA than I do. He just didn't get the right snippet from me, and neither one from his ma. He caught the coof, and was laid up for about a week. Genetics can be a fickle bitch.
It does make me wonder, in light of possible ancient civilizations, whether or not we are really the first to develop MRNA vaccines.
More in-depth info, just for the curious. His understanding of anthropology is imperfect - neither Neanderthals nor Denisovans ever lived in Africa, much less developed there, and therefore neanderthals never "left Africa", because they were never there to begin with - but he's a virologist, so his understanding of viruses should be a bit better founded:
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