Private channel session 100
7 messages over 1h 43m, 2020-05-28 – 2020-05-28.
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Nice to get a wacky paper to review that isn't about SARS-CoV-2: "Influenza virus-flow from insects to humans ascausative for influenza seasonality"
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Ooookay. Jens Kuhn strikes again? :zany_face:
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THat was exactly my thought - spooky!
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`Corresponding Author: Albrecht Pfäfflin`
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```Virus biomass outweighs human biomass, and insects biomass outweighs human biomass. Insects are regularly habited by viruses as well as humans, humans are further inhabited via insects. A model of viral flow is described and specified to explain influenza virus seasonality, which, in temperate climate, usually evolves when insects have mostly disappeared. With this hypothesis a coherent description of regular seasonal influenza and other seasonal respiratory virus infections in temperate climates is possible. The incidence of influenza under different circumstances e.g. temperature, humidity, or tropical conditions and different aspects like synchronicity of infectionsor in respect to evolutionary conditions do sustain this hypothesis if the behaviour of insects is considered.```
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:joy:. That's amazing - awesome lead!
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Pertinent to the thread though - this kind of nonsense is actually less hazardous than some of the bad science promulgated by "credentialed" "scientists." How much damage was done by "experts" simply refusing to acknowledge that this respiratory virus might actually be airborne? I know - rhetorical, but the answer [bat mitesaside https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bat-Mite] is probably a *lot more* than ~Jens~ some random German dudespewing nonsense about insects spreading ~Ebola~ flu. Then there are the Mikovitses of the world who occupy their own special place.