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Saying that the vackseen-resistant strains of COVID-19 are caused by unvacksinated people is like saying that bacteria became resistant to antibiotics because people weren’t taking antibiotics. It makes no sense.
But people continue to claim that the vackseens would be working better against the variants if only everyone would have been injected. Our son actually called my wife and me “plague factories”.
Maybe this little story will help. I realize that neither bacteria nor viruses think. But I’m trying to keep the analogy simple and easy to understand so that everyone can follow along.
Once upon a time, there was a bacterium named Bob. To make more Bobs, he made copies of himself. Every once in a while, a copy would be made that wasn’t quite perfect. For some reason, the copy wasn’t an exact duplicate of the original Bob.
But Bob doesn’t care. If the errors (let’s call them mutations) are harmful to Bob, that version dies out and the original Bob happily makes more copies of himself. But sometimes the mutations provide an advantage. For example, let’s say Bob 1.0 can’t stand temperatures above 100 degrees Fahrenheit. But, mutant Bob comes along and somehow manages to survive at 101 degrees. What happens next is that Bob 1.0 dies out and mutant Bob becomes a new and improved Bob.
Let’s call him Bob 2.0.
Then Bob 2.0 infects someone else, and that person goes to the doctor. The patient has a temperature of 101 but that’s no big deal to Bob 2.0. So, the doctor prescribes him 10 days’ worth of some type of antibiotic. And Bob 2.0 keeps making copies of himself. One of the copies is another mutant. And the new mutant Bob has an advantage. He isn’t quite as vulnerable to the antibiotic.
The patient takes his antibiotics for the first few days, but then he starts to feel better. So, he stops taking his medicine. The pills killed all of the Bob 2.0’s but it didn’t kill all of the mutant Bobs because the mutant Bobs have a resistance to the medicine. Had the patient taken all of the antibiotics, maybe mutant Bob would have also met his demise. But the patient didn’t, so mutant Bob lives to fight another day.
Let’s call him Bob 3.0.
Then, Bob 3.0 infects someone else, and the process repeats. Eventually, Bob turns into Super Bob and is nearly completely resistant to that type of antibiotic.
Now, even without the antibiotics, Bob will continue to mutate. Some mutations will give Bob an advantage, others not so much. Maybe Bob 2.0 would have mutated to be able to survive an even higher host body temperature. Or maybe not. But since the patient did take antibiotics which made him feel better, the patient never had a higher temperature, so Bob never had to clear that hurdle.
Without antibiotics, there would be nothing driving Bob to develop a resistance to antibiotics. So, someone infected with Bob, but not on antibiotics, isn’t likely to help Bob to turn into Super Bob. Bob can infect as many people as he wants and unless those people are taking antibiotics, there’s almost no chance that he’ll evolve to become antibiotic resistant.
The best way to prevent the creation of antibiotic-resistant bacterium is to minimize the use of antibiotics.
Now, let’s talk about Vince. Vince is a virus.
Like Bob, to make more Vinces, Vince makes copies of himself. And, also like Bob, not all of those copies of Vince are perfect. Some have mutations.
If the mutation gives Vince an advantage, the mutant Vinces survive while Vince 1.0 dies off. Mutant Vince becomes Vince 2.0.
So, Vince 2.0 goes on to infect someone. And that person is unvacksinated. Vince continues to copy himself and he continues to occasionally make mistakes. If the new mutant Vince helps Vince survive, mutant Vince becomes Vince 3.0. But, because Vince’s host isn’t vacksinated, Vince doesn’t need to find a way around that hurdle. He might mutate into something else, but the chances of him developing a resistance to a particular vackseen is next to nothing because the vackseens never got in his way.
But, if Vince happens to infect a vacksinated person…
If the vackseens actually stopped Vince, that would be one thing. But they don’t. All the vackseens do is inconvenience him a little. So, Vince continues to make copies of himself, and he continues to make mistakes. And one of those mistakes will eventually give him an advantage. One of those mistakes will cause Vince to mutate and become resistant to the vackseens.
Without antibiotics, there’s a near-zero chance that Bob will become an antibiotic-resistant bacterium. But we do have antibiotics and they got overused. We’ve known for quite a few years that doctors freely prescribing antibiotics is one of things that helped Bob become Super Bob. Doctors gave people antibiotics when they would have gotten better on their own without it.
Now, consider what happens when you inject billions of people with untested vackseens. That’s right, you end up with billions of host bodies for Vince, each presenting him with a small hurdle, but not a roadblock.
After not too long of a time, the vackseens lose whatever effectiveness they had in the first place. The more people injected with vackseens that don’t work very well, the quicker Vince will evolve to get around them. And, in hardly any time at all, Vince evolves into Super Vince.
And that, boys and girls, is the real reason the vackseens are becoming less and less effective at stopping Vince the Virus.
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