Is novel coronavirus an ‘amphibious’ pathogen or suffer from bi-polar disorder, WHO’s confusion over asymptomatic spreaders

More the people when get infected by the novel corona virus more the scientific confusion is also getting generated over the viral pandemic.  The comment of WHO (World Health Organization) about the lesser possibility of asymptomatic carriers of the virus spreading the disease needs to be looked at from both pathological per se and also from the evolutionary perspective of the virus.

Whenever the virus enters human host, it would tries to multiply.  That is the most common behaviour of any pathogenic microbe.  For its multiplication, the virus must at least, partly destroy the host cells which would in turn may triggers an array of immune responses, medically referred as symptoms.  

Asymptomatic carriers by definition, just harbours the virus but the virus is unlikely multiplying in the cells of the asymptomatic people.  If the virus doesn’t multiply in the host system means either the virus may die soon or may remain in latent or quiescent state until it finds another vulnerable host.  

Imagine the next host is also a healthy individual, will the virus again goes to latent phase?  How long the virus can remain in latent stage?  Or the virus may be multiplying in very small numbers in asymptomatic people and hence the immune response evoked is so benign which the asymptomatic individuals could not even recognise and hence they go asymptomatic or we call asymptomatic carriers of the virus.  If so, the viral load in all those asymptomatic people is likely to be too low and how such people can transmit the virus to others?  This basic tenet of virology fully concurs with the views of WHO. 

Until now both WHO and most of the so called experts have only displayed ‘fear’ as their primary asset and not any scientific answers or explanations or understanding.  

Is there any pathogen on earth had ever exhibited bi-polarism in its virulence and pathognecity; benign and friendly to about 85% of the population and deadly to the rest of 15%?  

Does that mean the virus is suffering from bi-polar disorder, may be in the day the virus behaves calm and friendly and becomes aggressive and deadly in the night or vice versa? 

If so, why the virus is going mad and angry with people who suffer from various co-morbidities alone?  Or else, is the immune trigger in those patients in response to the virus the real problem?  Then will there be the similar immune response could be elicited by any other pathogen is possible if it enters such system or the response is exclusive to novel coronavirus.   

All the above possibilities only raise serious doubts over our understating of the virus and without knowing anything about the virus in detail, how easily we might have concluded the virus to be the principal cause of human death. 

Should we conclude or interpret that the novel coronavirus as an amphibious pathogen; can cause infection and at the same time can also go friendly. 

Every pathogen may not infect everyone in the population in equal measure is known and one or two may escape and go unhurt by the pathogen in the given population.  But can there be a pathogen that can spare about 85% of the population and infect only the rest and the fatality shall be even less in the infected population but still the pathogen enjoys the title as an ‘exalted pathogen’ deadly? The world science has used fear and not the scientific understanding to deal the virus.  The scientists could easily excuse their ignorance under the cleaver term ‘novel’.   

   

We know a lot about different types of pathogens like dimorphic species, pleomorphic species, aquatic species (fresh water and marine water) causing infection terrestrial life form or terrestrial microbe causing infection in aquatic life form etc.  But none of the above pathogens despite having much uniqueness could pose any great threat to humanity except a few sporadic incidences of infections due to them.   

In the animal kingdom, neither amphibious animals like frog, lung fish, turtle, crocodile, salamander nor the omnivores animals like bear could really dominate the ecosystem.  Despite being an omnivorous animal, bear goes for hibernation during severe winter. 

If we keep looking for a virus, we may find the virus that we are looking for.

We become the product of what we think and do.  The whole world is talking about coronavirus and how many more people have contracted the virus etc. 

Let every Indian turn positive for the virus, so what? 

All Indians are not going to develop COVID 19 and all COVID 19 patients are not going to die. 

Let us build our capacity at treatment centres, let us convert all resources that we spent on testing, for treatment.  Let us free people to go with their life.   Those needs medical treatment will naturally come to hospital and rest would manage the disease and may go on with life.    Instead of dealing the problem in a simple way, we are complicating the simple ache into deadly disease. 

Science has only brought more mystery and enigma about the virus and not any credible science or definite answers.   Like the camouflage of a chameleon how it changes its colour according to the colour of the habitat, our scientific explanations are also so vague, open ended, filled with presumptions and guesses and only one definite answer comes as defence that is, the virus is ‘novel’ new to me, new to you and new to everyone. 

How long the virus shall remain new?  How long the humanity has to suffer from lockdown, quarantine, containment procedures and other prescriptions? 

Is WHO going to declare anything that is new as pathogen or anything that spread fast as pathogen? 

Bi-polarism, omnivore, amphibious modes of existence, all are survival strategy and not the indices of success.

If we decipher the ‘mood’ swing of novel coronavirus from the evolutionary perspective, we can conclude that the virus has not yet settled, still looking for a job (host), worried and at times exhibiting bi-polar behaviour.   The ratio of 85:15 or even 50:50 asymptomatic versus infected population clearly suggests that the virus may disappear soon provided if we do not trap the virus and create human being as the possible ecological trap of the virus. 

Only a curious one can go fearless.  Young ones are generally very curious and fearless.  The novel coronavirus is quite young and is fearless, but we are exhibiting disproportionate fear over a ‘new born baby’ like how king Kamsa who got worried about every newly born child to be Lord Krishna born to kill him and hence went onto kill every newly born child in Mathura. 

India must forget even the word corona and must start thinking about economy, employment and education.  Death is inevitable and none of us can prevent our death.  We do not know when we would die, why we let our mind to think the coronavirus in the next door is going to kill us tomorrow. 

Today’s medical science suffers the worst from loss of its credibility purely due to its friendship with fear.  Scientists and medical experts unfortunately sought the help of fear which our Babu giri and ruling political dispensation are using the same to bring dictatorial rule over democracy.