Not A Political Piece

 

This is not a political piece, per se. It’s not specifically about a political personage or about political process. It is about science. As written before, here, at the Palmer Report, science and the Biden attention to scientists will, if not hamstrung by political crab-walking, supply the solution to the many crises facing humankind.

Far too many have been made ignorant of science by cult-like thinking and theocratic propaganda. The MAGA-cult, QAnon, intelligent design quacks, flat-earthers, anti-maskers, etc, each in their own peculiar way, have caused the dumbing-down of the United States. Pandemic Deniers fit squarely within that bizarre panoply of anti-science and ignorance.

(Our last president, a dysfunctional toad of a man, was an amalgam of the collective ignorance and prejudicial superstition represented, in part, by the aforementioned cults of anti-science.)

I digress…

If this article were a Venn diagram, the reader would see a considerable amount of over-lap displayed therein.

One area of duplication that would be evident in such a diagram is between the deniers of the pandemic (which would include ‘anti-maskers’) and those espousing the ‘intelligent design’ and deny the veracity of evolution. 

To much dismay, COVID-19 has morphed into at least two new variants. This morphing is also known as mutation. The process of mutation is also termed ‘evolution’. The virus is evolving; it continues to evolves just as our species and all species continue to evolve. (Homo sapiens sapiens evolves far more slowly than any strain of virus, of course. We’re far more complicated.) 

Thus, we have evidence of evolution before us. The new variants of C-19 are more readily transmissible, possibly more deadly to certain segments of the population which casts the efficacy of the current generation of vaccines in some doubt.