Now, guess what you are? You’re a soul. And as a soul, you have one big mission; and that is to find your calling. Every soul has their own calling, regardless of who they are, what they have done, or what they have yet to do.
The business elite enjoy Davos not for the preaching they hear from Schwab or from celebrities like Bono, Elton John, and Sharon Stone, but for the unique opportunity it provides for networking and deal making. The idea that they should give authority back to governments, reform labor relations, and put the needs of the environment before the need for profit will happen…in a pig’s eye.
After all, why should they change in the ways that Schwab says stakeholder capitalism requires? And why should anyone think capitalism needs to be saved from itself? This is not the Great Depression. There was no Black Tuesday and no execs dropped from the fifteenth floor, worthless stock certificates fluttering behind.
On the contrary, the Dow Jones Industrial Average increased during the pandemic, and the wealthiest among us saw their riches greatly increase. According to a study by 24/7 Wall St., the net worth of America’s 614 billionaires grew by a collective $931 billion during the first seven months of the pandemic. Big Tech execs have especially profited. For example, Twitter founder Jack Dorsey’s personal wealth grew by $7.8 billion (a 298 percent increase). Obviously, things are good for the billionaire class.
So the question becomes, since the pandemic has been profitable for the wealthy, why would they want to change anything? They have hated the New Deal for eighty years, and they have been buying up politicians to chip away at it, beginning with Ronald Reagan’s attacks on big government and the welfare state. What makes anyone think that capitalism is going to do an about-face after the past forty years of clawing back New Deal concessions? Why would they do that willingly, especially now? That being the case, well might we wonder just how much climate change and social unrest they will tolerate before they change their ways. My suspicion is that they’ll tolerate a lot, especially if stock markets continue to tell them that everything’s jake. They have no motive for following Schwab and every profit motive for not following him.
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Supportive references from the literature
Topic 1: Natural antibodies (B-1A cells, sIgM, natural Abs & innate immunity to CoV and Covid-19)
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7202830/
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/S2352-4642(20)30135-8
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fimmu.2020.02139/full
doi : https://doi.org/10.3389/fimmu.2020.02139
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41385-020-00359-2
doi : https://doi.org/10.1038/s41385-020-00359-2
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5526850/
doi : https://doi.org/10.3389/fimmu.2017.00872
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fimmu.2020.595535/full
doi: https://doi.org/10.3389/fimmu.2020.595535
https://journals.lww.com/shockjournal/fulltext/2020/11000/therapeutic_potential_of_b_1a_cells_in_covid_19.2.aspx
doi: https://10.1097/SHK.0000000000001610
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fphar.2020.01309/full
doi: https://doi.org/10.3389/fphar.2020.01309
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23692567/
doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/nyas.12137
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20948548/
doi : https://doi.org/10.1038/nri2849
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1939455120303793
doi : https://doi.org/10.1016/j.waojou.2020.100476
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fimmu.2019.00483/full
doi: https://doi.org/10.3389/fimmu.2019.00483
Topic 2 :
- Role of natural Abs and NK cells in asymptomatic carriers
- Substantial transmission by asymptomatically infected subjects ; protection of asymptomatic carriers not due to Abs
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.12.18.20248447v1
doi : https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.12.18.20248447
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33391280/
doi : https://doi.org/10.3389/fimmu.2020.610300
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7608887/
doi : https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0241536
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41392-021-00525-3
topic 3 :
Natural Abs facilitate MHC class I-restricted antigen presentation
Conserved, CoV-associated cell surface-expressed MHC cl. I peptides
https://www.nature.com/articles/nm933
doi: https://10.1038/nm933
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19439480/
doi : https://10.1128/JVI.00079-09
topic 4 :
Abs may bind to Sars-CoV-2 without neutralizing the virus/ preventing infection
https://www.pennmedicine.org/news/news-releases/2021/february/antibodies-to-common-cold-coronaviruses-do-not-protect-against-sars-cov2
Topic 5 :
Natural and vaccine-induced immune escape
Unifying the Epidemiological and Evolutionary Dynamics of Pathogens
https://science.sciencemag.org/content/303/5656/327.long
doi: https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1090727
Emergence of immune escape at dominant SARS-CoV-2 killer T-cell epitope
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.06.21.21259010v1
doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.06.21.21259010
The emergence and ongoing convergent evolution of the N501Y lineages coincides with a major global shift in the SARS-CoV-2 selective landscape https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33688681/
Risk of rapid evolutionary escape from biomedical interventions targeting SARS-CoV-2 spike protein https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0250780
SARS-CoV-2 variants, spike mutations and immune escape https://www.nature.com/articles/s41579-021-00573-0.pdf
Vaccination and the dynamics of immune evasion https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17210532/
https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(21)00226-9?
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2021.02.037
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.12.28.424451v1
doi : https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.12.28.424451
https://science.sciencemag.org/content/371/6527/329 doi: https://10.1126/science.371.6527.329
https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.1002198
doi: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.1002198
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanpub/article/PIIS2468-2667(21)00036-0/fulltext
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/S2468-2667(21)00036-0
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-00121-z
https://science.sciencemag.org/content/371/6526/284
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(21)00183-5/fulltext
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(21)00183-5
https://immunology.sciencemag.org/content/6/57/eabg6461
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(21)00468-2/fulltext?fbclid=IwAR1K_tzlvBP4_yJ95jnpsj0yBxqjClZrcEQDemR5xMA64HopMZMmSV1JkKw
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(21)00468-2
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0092867421003676?via%3Dihub
https://www.karger.com/Article/FullText/515417
doi: https://doi.org/10.1159/000515417
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/ebiom/article/PIIS2352-3964(21)00148-1/fulltext
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ebiom.2021.103355
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.04.06.21254882v2
doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.04.06.21254882
topic 6 :
Mechanism of viral shedding and clearance
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanmic/article/PIIS2666-5247(20)30172-5/fulltext
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/S2666-5247(20)30172-5
topic 7 :
Dynamics of humoral anti-Covid-19 immune response and potential for reinfection
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7641391/
doi : https://doi.org/10.1099/jgv.0.001439
topic 8 :
Lessons learned from Smallpox vaccines and Influenza pandemic 1918
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20860482/
doi: https://10.2217/fmb.10.98
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/09/28/comparing-1918-flu-vs-coronavirus.html
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/compare-flu-pandemic-1918-and-covid-19-caution-180975040/
https://theconversation.com/what-makes-a-wave-of-disease-an-epidemiologist-explains-141573
topic 9:
Re-exposure to S protein in subjects previously primed by natural infection elicits cross-variant neutralizing antibodies
mRNA vaccination boosts cross-variant neutralizing antibodies elicited by SARS-CoV-2 infection (Science)
topic 10:
Influenza pandemic 1918: observations and data collected from autopsy samples indicate that no new variants occurred
1918 Influenza Pandemic Caused by Highly Conserved Viruses with Two Receptor-Binding Variants
1918 Influenza: the Mother of All Pandemics
Entrance Atrium to the Villa San Marco in Castellammare di Stabia, in the background you can see the Sacellum (sacred enclosure).
Photo by Silvia Vacca
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