This COVID-19 pandemic has had a great impact on the world, and it is also the worst pandemic in the 21st century. Moreover, the pandemic has not ended yet, and it is still unknown when it will end! However, Anand, known as an Indian child prodigy, predicted that the epidemic in 2023 will end, so what is going on?
Prophecy by Indian prodigy Anand - He predicted in a video on June 30, 2022, what might happen between the second half of 2022 and 2023. He predicted that although the pandemic still exists now, the epidemic will not become a concern after 2023. Besides predicting the epidemic, what else does he have to predict? He also predicted that due to man-made environmental damage, more extreme weather and natural disasters will occur in the future. The above are some Anand's predictions about the future. Although these two predictions seem to have no direct connection, they are not the case. Because research has found that climate change is making infectious diseases worse.
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According to new research published in the Journal of Nature, more than half of the known infectious diseases that threaten humans have worsened by climate change. The researchers analyzed how 10 different climate emergencies—such as heat waves, droughts and wildfires—affect hundreds of infectious diseases. The final study concluded that climate change exacerbates 58% of diseases. These include dengue fever, hepatitis, pneumonia, malaria, Zika, etc. In conducting the study, the researchers analyzed how various climate hazards affect the vectors of disease transmission and subsequently exacerbated pathogenic diseases. For example, drought causes mosquitoes (a common vector of disease transmission) to be concentrated around limited water sources, increasing the likelihood of disease spreading like the West Nile. Environmental degradation and natural habitat loss have also forced disease-carrying animals such as rodents and bats to live closer to humans, and close contact has exacerbated the threat of the virus.
At the same time, global warming is causing the ice sheet and permafrost to melt, exposing pathogens that have been frozen underground for a long time. Examples of this situation are well documented. For example, in 2016, a 12-year-old boy died after contracting anthrax. The disease can be traced back to an infected carcass of a reindeer that was once frozen underground but appeared and thawed due to temperatures in Siberia that summer as high as 35°C. Due to this outbreak, nearly 20 people were eventually hospitalized. In short, due to climate change, infectious diseases transmitted from animals to humans—also known as zoonotic diseases—are becoming increasingly common. For some zoonotic diseases, the risk of transmission to humans is increased. Animals carry bacteria or viruses that can mutate and evolve, and humans may be infected through direct contact or indirectly through soil, water or surfaces. When you narrow the boundaries between humans and the natural world, people will only get more exposed to these things.
Although we don’t know when the pandemic will end now, everyone also hopes that the sooner the pandemic ends, the better. The new coronavirus has been updated several times, from the original strain to Delta to Omickron, etc. They seem to have not stopped mutation, and now many sub-variants appear in Omickron.
So why does the virus mutate? Unlike human or animal hosts, cannot replicate itself. Viruses carry their own genetic instructions, which often hijack the host cell's manufacturing machine—proteins called polymerases that act as gene copiers. Mutations are introduced during this replication process, and the frequency of the mutation depends on the type of virus. DNA viruses (viruses that use DNA encoding genes) are often stable, and they actually rely on the same polymerase of the host to replicate their genome. Because (humans) have such a huge genome, we have to make sure that genes don’t make many mistakes. So our (polymerase) is actually able to proofread and fix errors.
However, viruses called RNA do not have this proofreading ability, so they are more likely to undergo mutations. Most of the time, this error does not give the virus any advantage, and may even kill the virus.But at some point, they introduce tiny genetic mutations, a phenomenon called antigen drift. In an RNA virus like influenza, the slight changes in the gene encoding surface proteins are the reason why it appears regularly every season and the reason why influenza vaccines are updated regularly.
Another person on the Internet said that the virus will become milder over time, but the reality is that this is not the case. While becoming more contagious and less lethal makes the virus more likely to survive, the problem is, it is not necessarily. There is evidence that animal viruses become more deadly over time, including myxomavirus in rabbits and Marek's disease in chickens. And Ebola virus, which was found to have a mutation in 2016, not only making it easier to spread, but may be more contagious. The variant eventually died at the end of the epidemic in 2016.
and the deadliest pandemic in modern history, the Spanish flu in 1918. The virus infected about one-third of the world's population and killed between 20 and 50 million people - an estimated mortality rate of 1% to 3%. Evidence shows that the virus that caused the disease did mutate into a more deadly variant. Because these more deadly strains led to three subsequent flu outbreaks and may make the virus better at spreading between humans than between birds, or other natural hosts, and better at escaping the immune system.
In short, no matter what, we hope the epidemic will end quickly. But you can just look at Anand's prophecy, because the astrology he relies on has been proven to be pseudoscience and cannot predict anything at all. The above is what we have today. I am Huo Zongjun, see you next time.
