Two Pandemics 2020

Good morning Amy.

 Yesterday ended a very strange year in America. Two very contagious and destructive viruses ran rampant across our country.

 The Virus of the body, COVID-19 pandemic killed 350,000, mostly older Americans, and infected an estimated 60 million. Terri and I caught the virus in late January but were fortunate to have only mild symptoms. While there were conspiracies that this was an engineered disease, the best evidence indicates it evolved in an agricultural sitting and jumped to humans. It is continuing to evolve but so far, the new strains are not more deadly. It is important to note that the new vaccine made history not only because of a 95 percent efficacy rate at preventing COVID-19, but because it is the first vaccine ever approved for human use based on RNA technology.

 Genetic engineering. Traditional vaccines inject inactivated virus proteins called antigens. The antigens stimulate the body’s immune system to recognize the specific virus and produce antibodies in response.

 RNA-based vaccines do not introduce an antigen, but instead inject a short sequence of synthetic messenger RNA (mRNA) that is enclosed in a specially engineered lipid nanoparticle. Once the mRNA is in our body it “instructs” the protein synthesis machinery in our cells to produce a piece of the SARS-CoV-2 virus spike protein.

While the virus does not appear to be engineered, the vaccine is a genetically engineered nano code that alters body protein production.

 The virus of the mind, Trump-2020 infected an estimated 75 million and caused serious, possibly unrecoverable, brain damage to millions of Americans.

A meme is an idea or behavior encoded in the mind. Memes spread from person to person from close personal contact.  Harmful memes (virus of the mind) cause false beliefs and imitation of destructive behaviors. Symptoms of infection are the occurrence of shared false beliefs and imitation.  Humanity has cultivated viruses of the mind to manipulate people and steer cultures for thousands of years. George Orwell’s 1984 highlighted how language is used to insert false information into people’s minds and use those false beliefs to control people. Cults, religions, cultures, and political ideologies rely on memes to perpetuate a ruse.

 Memetic engineering is an emerging science based on the design and distribution of memes used for marketing. The advent of social media, mass communications, and AI systems’ ability to collect and analyze big data, have revolutionized the ability of mind control.

 Like COVID-19 it seems unlikely that TRUMP-2020 was a designed virus, but rather evolved from an unfortunate confluence of right-wing memes cultivated in the Trump petri dish. It has grown into an extremely dangerous disease for which there is no cure. Most people seem to possess natural immunity and it is not clear if the infection will run its course with symptoms fading over time in the infected.