Are lockdowns justified?

[Abaddon_ire]

Viruses reproduce, but they don’t ‘breed’ in the conventional sense.

If two viruses infect the same cell, they do breed, in the same sense as bacteria conjugating is breeding, right?

Two viruses enter a cell? Why two? Viruses replicate without interacting with other viruses. What did you think? There are boy viruses and girl viruses? And they only replicate if there are two or more present? Do they have a dating website someplace?

That is one of the most fucked up displays of ignorance I have seen in some time.

Oh, and bacteria do not "conjugate to breed" wherever that idiocy came from. You may as well say you think babies are delivered by storks.

They are self-replicators, so inbreeding isn’t an issue.

But... self-replication is even worse than inbreeding. Self-replication means all harmful mutations that existed in the parent will exist in offspring, whereas inbreeding means at least some of them probably won't.

It is the single most successful reproduction strategy that we know of. Or at least everyone on the planet with the exception of you, somehow.

Even if it were, I don’t see what moving from one species to another would have to do with it.

Moving from one specie to another means entering an eco-system where nobody of your specie, or probably even a closely-related specie, exist.

That is idiotic. One virus is all one needs if a suitable home is available. Given suitable conditions, a single virus can create billions of copies astonishingly quickly.

HGT tends to increase genetic diversity, not stifle it.

I do not understand what you mean.

Yep you got that right. There is not much you understand.

Ever heard of mitochondrial eve? That whole concept would probably explode your brain.

Fact is, we humans have a severe lack of genetic diversity. The fact that we have survived demonstrates that we have had inbreeding. Lots of it. For thousands of years.

Viruses don’t mate with each other in a way that would result in inbreeding.

This makes about as much sense as saying that, since female turkeys (or bees...) do not need males to procreate, turkey as a specie could survive even if all males were killed. No, self-replication leads to harmful mutation building up even more so than inbreeding does.

Oh good grief.