A single Neanderthal gene found in one in six Britons is likely to blame for up to a million Covid deaths, according to an Oxford academic.
The LZTFL1 gene is a Neanderthal gene found on chromosome three and has been previously shown to double a person’s risk of severe disease and death.
But before now there had never been an estimated figure for how many lives were lost to this single piece of genetic code.
Roughly 15 per cent of Europeans have the Neanderthal form of the gene, compared to about 60 per cent of South Asians.
The interest here being that if we adjust UK death rates for this little fact then how much room is there left for an explanation of inequality being the cause of differential deaths rates?
Tim, I think your comment at the end will mean that this study will be consigned to the memory hole, don’t you?
If this were true then surely the COVID-19 death rates for China alone would be far higher than the official figure of 5,226 deaths officially recorded.
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“South Asian” India etc, “East Asian” China etc
I have a great idea to get our names in the papers. Let’s look at 50,000 genes, and correlate them with assigned deaths “of or with covid”.
We know that, whatever (probably small) population we choose to study this in one will pop out with a relative risk of at least 2, and it’s cool to say “x doubles your risk of dying from covid” because people don’t like to die, and covid is still sexy science.
Because the doubling of a small risk isn’t very important, and some people are starting to catch on to the relative risk scam, we have to make it scarier.
So what we need to do is extrapolate this to all global deaths reported “of or with covid” and come up with a scary trojan number. We can stretch it to a million, between friends y’see, it’s a nice round number and sounds really scary.
All we need do now is make it the most eye-catching of this week’s fake epidemiology stories, how about our distant ancestors having wild sex orgies with even hairier hominids? Perfect!
Seriously,
1) Who can seriously claim a SNP is proof of Neanderthal origin? The best you might be able to do is show it originated at the time Neanderthals were still around, coming over here, taking our jobs and taking our women.
2) An RR of 2 for this SNP (and not reporting how many SNPs were correlated) given the ability to scan the entire genome is seriously fucking lame. If anything it is proof that there is close to zero effect of your genes on risk of covid death.
What race does having the LZTFL1 gene make you?
Duh. Occams razor.
I think we’ll find that Covid fatalities have more to do with
A) age
B) proximity to hospitals
C) proximity to other elderly people with Covid
Neanderthal genes, what a lot of arse.
Is LZTFL1 the new LGBTQIA+ ?
So nothing to do with squashing early treatments and pushing the elderly from hospital into “care” homes if they failed to succumb? Or do to with comorbidities? Or age?
The interest here being that if we adjust UK death rates for this little fact then how much room is there left for an explanation of inequality being the cause of differential deaths rates?
It depends on whether Neanderthals were White or not…
And if they had free school dinners
Im roughly the same vein
a. the pelvic girdle / birth canal in hom. sap. is narrow and imperfectly adapted.
b. neanderthals had very large heads
c. a female hom. sap. pregnant by a neanderthal faced a probable death sentence
d. survivors of miscegenation would all have neanderthal mothers
e. all men are rapists.
So a Neanderthal gene could double my chances of dying, to 200 per cent? Interesting…
Who can seriously claim a SNP is proof of Neanderthal origin?
Nicola Sturgeon looks more Griphopithecus.
“then how much room is there left for an explanation of inequality being the cause of differential deaths rates”
“LOL”…
Yet amazingly, lots of women still want to have sex with Neanderthals.
Are Neanderthal genes the one’s that are worn halfway down your arse?
Just one overlooked factor, those who allegedly died of CoVid were going to or actually did, die within a year anyway of something else, just CoVid got to them first, or it is claimed it did.
Tangentially related
https://neociceroniantimes.wordpress.com/2021/08/06/south-africa-as-an-unintended-example/
This could possibly help with dating.
“Your children’s survival depends on it”
How does one double the risk of death? It’s a dead certainty.
John77
By getting hit by two buses ?
This is not new, w’ve known about Neanderthal gene issue for well over a year
Before Neanderthal gene issue emerged I was posting from May 2020 about how UK ‘with covid’ deaths correlated with percetage of non-whites (except yellow) in each UK country. Thus, we should not treat everyone as equal
The “bad” gene missing is probably a reason why Nordic, Celtic/Irish deaths lower
Now Telegraph, long after event, has ‘bravely’ decided to report it
I’m guessing Twatter Left going mental about Racist study & Telegraph