New Year Prediction.

With the coming of the new year everybody is making predictions and this is one of mine…

COVID-19 is not going away.

It will be with us for the rest of our history.

Did you know that the 1918 Flu is still with us today? It can be found in the strains of flu that we get now, it is highly mutated but its DNA is still with us, the same will be true for COVID it will be doing what all living things do… mutate.

I am a voracious reader of science articles and also science fiction and a couple of things that I have learned, one that as population increases toxins build up. Do you know why wines only have a 12% -17% alcohol? It is because of the yeast excrement poisons it environment killing off the yeast. Well the same thing is true for us, we are poisoning our own environment and disease can spread much more easily.

Another lesson I learned, this time from sic-fi. Ever watch Stargate? There are many science fiction books about space/time portals and many of the themes involve civilizations dying off because people could spread disease faster than the incubation period of the disease. Sound familiar?

With jet travel we can span the globe faster than the incubation period for COVID. The Omicron variant isn’t from South Africa but appears to have started in Europe and spread from there, South Africa was the first place it was identified as a new strain.

Most of the new strains of viruses cross the animal human barrier, there is even a name for it; Zoonotic Diseases. HIV, COVID, rabies, avian influenza and monkeypox, even Cat Scratch fever, the list goes on and on.

So my New Year Prediction is… we will have to be getting COVID booster shot just like the flu shots each year. They maybe even combined in to one shot.