Are lockdowns justified?

[FlatAssembler]

Two viruses enter a cell? Why two?

Well, there can be more. But at least two are needed for conjugation.

Viruses replicate without interacting with other viruses. What did you think?

I thought, as I still do, that they can, like bacteria or turkeys or bees, replicate without interacting with other viruses, but that they also can, and is beneficial to the offspring if they do that, replicate while interacting with other viruses.

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

Those strawmans make you sound even more stupid. Nothing I said could be remotely reasonably interpreted as saying there are male and female viruses and that at least two viruses need to be present for a virus to replicate. I explicitly said viruses were like turkeys or bees or bacteria in that they can mate, but do not have to mate to have children.

Oh, and bacteria do not "conjugate to breed" wherever that idiocy came from.

What is conjugation then? I remember we defined it in school as sexual reproduction of bacteria.

It is the single most successful reproduction strategy that we know of.

If that were true, there would be no sexual reproduction at all.

Given suitable conditions, a single virus can create billions of copies astonishingly quickly.

Correct, but those copies will not be perfect copies.

Ever heard of mitochondrial eve?

Well, I have heard of it. I am not sure what it means. I know that some creationists claim it means all humans share a common ancestor of a few thousand years ago, whereas scientists say it does not mean that.

Fact is, we humans have a severe lack of genetic diversity.

Yes, but it is by orders of magnitude more than a single virus that jumped into a different specie and started self-replicating.

Oh good grief.

What does that mean?