Oh man, that rise in cases looks insane. It’s Müller’s Rollercoaster!
Now compare and contrast what @Giltil said in this previous thread on Coronavirus in India and it’s putative relationship to Genetic Entropy:
…to what he has been arguing in this thread about Müller’s Ratchet as a vehicle causing Genetic Entropy of the Coronavirus.
How about when he created this thread?:
“The Covid 19 virus no longer exists clinically in Italy.” This bold statement was made on Italian television on Sunday 31 May by Dr Alberto Zangrillo, director of the San Raffaele Hospital in Milan. According to him, “the samples taken over the last ten days show an absolutely infinitesimal viral load compared to those taken a month or two ago”. In other words, recently infected patients would have much less virus in their airways than patients at the beginning of the epidemic.
How can we explain the decline of the virus, not only in Italy but in many other countries around the world?
As for me, the best explanation has something to do with John Sanford’s genetic entropy. And you, what do you think?
Dunno. Let’s take a look at Italy now:
@Giltil has more such similar threads making similarly ridiculous statements.
Now up above, Gilbert protests me characterizing Sanford’s concept of GE as entailing the inevitable extinction of virtually all life on Earth by asserting (to my honest surprise) that Sanford is totally aware that his GE idea is dependent on factors such as population size, mutation rate, and so one. Yet Gilbert has wasted no time on this forum making statements such as the following many times before:
Valérie, it is important to see that Sanford’s primary thesis is not that everything is going extinct, but that given only strict neo-Darwinism theory (RV+NS), all life forms are doomed to extinction (see in appendix 5 of his book his response to the objection that persistence of various forms of life disproves GE)
There are multiple others like it, but one should be enough. Of course, similar statements have been made by Paul Price and Valerie too. Nobody is under any illusions about what GE is supposedly about. Evolution is impossible because life should have gone extinct a long time ago, and is all currently headed for extinction (but Jesus will intervene before it happens).