Nov 25

 Tired today. With a slight touch of nausea. Duh. How very predictable. I can't quite gather myself to do some useful work. And. I can feel myself sketching away and getting worse with each passing minute. Ho hum.

I have crunched a video my ex sent me today. About how covid interacts with the gut. Some great science there about how it is actually infecting gut bacteria and multiplying in your gut. The implications are enormous. Truly. Enormous. And would explain a lot about a myriad of "long covid" symptoms. But also very likely shines a light on how some virals in general can sit within us. Hiding. In the complex jungle that is the gut biome. Fascinating. And a bit of an arse. Because. Currently. There's not a lot you could do to fix that. Your options being a) create a new vaccine(s) that is uniquely tailored to the mutant variant of covid in your gut ( because it's going to be a unique mutation to you, living and dying in its own little bio generator that is you ), or b) nuking your gut biome so hard, it wipes out all the bacteria that covid can cannibalise. For option a) its impractical to say the least for every person to get their own unique vaccine. Not going to happen. If you're very rich. Maybe. For the plebs. You're fucked. And option b). Is tantamount to suicide. Shoot yourself in the head. Voila ! No more infection. Yes. You're also dead. A minor technicality. This is the same school of thought that brings you - complete immune system reset by killing all your bone marrow, very possibly killing you in the process before you get a marrow transplant, or, radiation or chemo therapy that actively kills you in the hope that the cancer dies before you do. Poison yourself. And hope the cancer is not as quick on its feet to keep ahead of the poison that you are in general.

The scorched earth, sledgehammer to crack a nut, branches of medicine. "Medicine". More like. Nuclear strikes. To tackle littering. Once that nuke goes off. All the dropped crisp packets miraculously disappear. Marvellous. So does everything else. Pfft. Do you want clean streets or not ? I'd like some streets period. Pfft. 

Oh. I should probably link the video. It is science dense. But really very good indeed. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmDY6Kz5-Pw 

Also. I'd like to take a guess that this gut covid. Is one - but not the only - vector for breeding covid mutations. It's a lovely warm little protected bio lab. Where the covid virus lives and dies a thousand times. Each time shifting subtly. Developing itself in your gut. And then. Gets out. Most likely via an imperctible poop transfer. A less than scrupulously cleaned poop hand on a door knob.

It also raises the prospect that covid is sticky. It doesn't come and go. It comes. And sticks around. This is absolutely not without precedent. Many viruses do the exact same thing. Herpes. Chicken pox. Both of those are infamous for a) not being able to be rid of and b) repeated flaring back up again. Cold sores in the former. And shingles in the latter. Once you've got it. You've got it.

But it does make me wonder whether this isn't just another case of science/medicine being lazy. And the current status quo being "good enough", and not enough understood or done about where those bastards hang out in your body waiting for a signal to flare up. In the case of chicken pox. It "stays within your nerve cells". In fact. It migrates to your spinal column. And hangs out there. Off the radar of your immune system. And goes to sleep for long periods of time. Before once in a while deciding to stretch its legs and wreak havoc on your body. The question then is. Why hasn't anyone done any fucking work in eliminating that particular bastard from your spine. The fact it hides in nerve cells was nailed in the late 1980's. But no treatment in the intermediate time. I think this is the general story with all post viral effects. Can't be bothered. Shameful really. Also when you consider that Multiple Sclerosis has a 95% correlation with the Epstein-Barr virus. IE. EB is the smoking gun that eventually becomes MS. Another post fucking viral effect that ends up being devastating and in some cases, terminal in the most degenerative horrible way. Take my Mom. Consider. That if she had been given an EB vaccine - which is possible, but they don't bother - she would have avoided a horrible degeneration over the span of 30 years. For the sake of one fucking injection. That would cost pennies. I'd call that pretty shameful. But of course. They didn't know back then. But they do now. And still they do nothing about it. Let the peasantry burn.

I would imagine the same rules do not apply to the rich and powerful. Very quietly. In private clinics. That level of healthcare is dispensed. There is a reason evil rich fucks like Murdoch seem to live forever - married for the fifth time at 93. 93 ! 

I was going to write some stuff about literature here. Philosophy. Metaphysics. But. My energy has flickered out. All that stuff will have to be for another day. Or. Maybe just gets lost to the ether. Of lot of stuff gets lost to the ether now. Sometimes I idly ponder how much shit and or its importance, is just evaporating out of me. Eh. Meh. I am but one miniscule grain of sand on an infinite beach. I do not matter.