Omicron has HIV in it. That's why the governments are so scared.

purplefields · 03-12-2021 10:34pm #1

Just reading an article here that says the new variant, omicron has common cold virus in it:

Omicron variant may have picked up a piece of common-cold virus (breakingnews.ie)

But is also mentions that this section is found in HIV. What if the new batch of people infected with omicron go on to develop an AIDS like illness?

The same genetic sequence appears many times in one of the coronaviruses that causes colds in people – known as HCoV-229E – and in the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) that causes Aids, Soundararajan said.

Is this why China is so keen on maintaining Covid-zero? They know this possibility.

Dohnjoe · 04-12-2021 10:16am

I'm not sure what the conspiracy is here, but indeed Omicron has a lot of mutations to it. One theory is that it could have gone back into the animal reservoir, then been retransmitted to humans, or indeed could have circulated into someone (or a group) with HIV.

Anyway the anti-vaccination types who have nothing but contempt for vaccines, masks, rules, etc seem determined to go out of their way to get this "little flu", so there'll be no end of unvaccinated people to test out how serious any new mutations, like Omicron, are.

Wibbs · 07-12-2021 8:31am

yep it has the same sequence that HIV has, but suggesting it could go on to cause a HIV illness is pretty much as daft as that Hugh O'Neill eejit recently claiming that because this sequence is also present in some coronaviruses that cause the common cold Omricon will become more like the common cold. The sequence involved concerns itself with making it easier for the virus to latch onto human cells and bugger all else. If you inserted it into the smallpox virus it wouldn't lessen its nastiness, just make it possibly more infectious. If you inserted it into another common cold virus it wouldn't make it any worse, just possibly make it more infectious.

Or put it another way; if you get a common cold do you worry that you may end up with a HIV like illness? Of course you don't, because you won't.

14-12-2021 7:59pm

Covid 19 virus with the ability to be incorporated into cellular DNA like HIV. Nightmare scenario but instead of getting AIDS YOU GET a cold every few months. Oh wait?