"Commander Kinsey" wrote in message
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On Mon, 07 Jun 2021 19:08:49 +0100, Rod Speed
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"Commander Kinsey" wrote in message
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On Mon, 07 Jun 2021 18:12:19 +0100,
wrote:

On Monday, June 7, 2021 at 12:20:53 PM UTC-4, Commander Kinsey wrote:
Doesn't giving a coronavirus vaccine to everyone increase the chances
of
the virus mutating to avoid the vaccine? So we should be using it
sparingly.

Microorganisms don't mutate to "avoid" anything. It's an undirected
process
whereby anything that survives (whether it's antibodies produced by a
vaccine
or an antibacterial such as penicillin) is resistant. Anything that
wasn't
resistant is dead.

I've read that this virus is intelligent, like a motorist spotting a
speedtrap and driving on a different route.

Reality is nothing like that. Viruses cant do that.

So we think now.

So we know now.

But we're always discovering new things about nature.

But we know that there is nothing to think with in any virus.

It's a very simple replicating system which has errors like
any replicating system and that's what produces variants,
the replication errors. They mostly are worse than the
original, but not always. No thinking involved.