Malevolent Designer News - How SARS-CoV-2 Makes You Sick Long-Term Even If You Survive It.

Representative fluorescence micrographs of purified fluorescent (Alexa Fluor™ 88) fibrinogen (note no ThT added) with added thrombin to form extensive fibrin clots

(A) Fluorescent fibrinogen with thrombin; (B) fluorescent fibrinogen with added spike protein (final exposure concentration 1 ng.ml−1) and thrombin.

Could microclots help explain the mystery of long Covid? | Resia Pretorius | The Guardian

As a special New Year gift to worshippers of Creationism's supernatural sadist, the creator of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, I bring them news of its brilliance in creating a virus that, even if you survive the initial attempt to kill you, can ensure you suffer long-term for your effrontery.

As this Guardian article by Professor Resia (Etheresia) Pretorius, of the Department of Physiological Sciences, Faculty of Science, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa showed, COVID-19 has a nasty little sting in its tail with which it hits back if it doesn't kill you. Professor Resia Pretorius is co-lead author of a paper from last August, which highlighted the high incidence of micro blood clots in patients who had survived COVID-19 and were now suffering from 'Long Covid'.
This is a degree of sadistic mendacity in design of which followers of Creationism's malevolent designer should be proud.

In the article, Professor Pretorius points out that there are now around 100 million people worldwide who suffer with Long Covid. These patients:

Acute Covid-19 is not only a lung disease, but significantly affects the vascular and coagulation systems.

Professor Resia Pretorius
Quoted in the Guardian

…complain of numerous symptoms, the main ones being recurring fatigue and brain fog, muscle weakness, being out of breath and having low oxygen levels, sleep difficulties and anxiety or depression. Some patients are so sick that they cannot work or even walk a few steps. There is possibly also an elevated risk of stroke and heart attacks. One of the biggest sources of concern is that even mild and sometimes asymptomatic initial Covid-19 infection may lead to debilitating, long-term disability.

She also points out that:

Since early 2020, we and other researchers have pointed out that acute Covid-19 is not only a lung disease, but actually significantly affects the vascular (blood flow) and coagulation (blood clotting) systems.
A recent study in my lab revealed that there is significant microclot formation in the blood of both acute Covid-19 and long Covid patients. With healthy physiology, clots may form (for instance, when you cut yourself). However, the body breaks down the clots efficiently by a process called fibrinolysis.

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The presence of persistent microclots and hyperactivated platelets (also involved in clotting) perpetuates coagulation and vascular pathology, resulting in cells not getting enough oxygen in the tissues to sustain bodily functions (known as cellular hypoxia). Widespread hypoxia may be central to the numerous reported debilitating symptoms.

In the open access paper she co-authored with colleagues, published in Bioscience Reports, Professor Pretorius explains how they found that the spike protein from the SARS-CoV-2 virus inhibits finbrinolysis, so leaving micro blood clots to circulate and block the small capillaries in various body organs, including the brain, possibly causing the symptoms associated with Long Covid.

No doubt Creationist devotees of the putative divine malevolence will be pointing out how only something with a detailed knowledge of how the body's blood clotting system (which they often cite as an example of an 'irreducibly complex’ system) works could design a virus with spike proteins that inhibit the process of fibrinolysis.

Creationist mode:

Or at least they would have to be if they were honest enough to explain how their childish superstition is a better explanation than that offered by science because the notion of intentional design implies detailed knowledge of whatever the design is for (or in this case, against) and the idea of it being the result of a mindless natural process operating without a plan is rejected by dogma, by Creationists.

But here is how Professor Pretorius and her colleagues explain it in their open access paper:

Abstract
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-Cov-2)-induced infection, the cause of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), is characterized by unprecedented clinical pathologies. One of the most important pathologies, is hypercoagulation and microclots in the lungs of patients. Here we study the effect of isolated SARS-CoV-2 spike protein S1 subunit as potential inflammagen sui generis. Using scanning electron and fluorescence microscopy as well as mass spectrometry, we investigate the potential of this inflammagen to interact with platelets and fibrin(ogen) directly to cause blood hypercoagulation. Using platelet-poor plasma (PPP), we show that spike protein may interfere with blood flow. Mass spectrometry also showed that when spike protein S1 is added to healthy PPP, it results in structural changes to β and γ fibrin(ogen), complement 3, and prothrombin. These proteins were substantially resistant to trypsinization, in the presence of spike protein S1. Here we suggest that, in part, the presence of spike protein in circulation may contribute to the hypercoagulation in COVID-19 positive patients and may cause substantial impairment of fibrinolysis. Such lytic impairment may result in the persistent large microclots we have noted here and previously in plasma samples of COVID-19 patients. This observation may have important clinical relevance in the treatment of hypercoagulability in COVID-19 patients.

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Conclusion
Scanning electron- and fluorescence microscopy revealed large, dense anomalous and amyloid masses in WB and PPP of healthy individuals where spike protein was added to the samples. Mass spectrometry confirmed that when spike protein was added to PPP, it interacts with plasma proteins, resulting in fibrin(ogen), prothrombin and other proteins linked to coagulation, to become substantially resistant to trypsinization, resulting in less fragments. Flow analysis confirmed that microclots may impair blood flow. Here we suggest that, in part, the presence of spike protein S1 in circulation may contribute to the hypercoagulation in COVID-19 positive patients and may cause severe impairment of fibrinolysis…

Grobbelaar, Lize M.; Venter, Chantelle; Vlok, Mare; Ngoepe, Malebogo; Laubscher, Gert Jacobus; Lourens, Petrus Johannes; Steenkamp, Janami; Kell, Douglas B.; Pretorius, Etheresia (2021)
SARS-CoV-2 spike protein S1 induces fibrin(ogen) resistant to fibrinolysis: implications for microclot formation in COVID-19
Bioscience Reports 27 August 2021; 41 (8): BSR20210611. doi: 10.1042/BSR20210611

Copyright: © 2021 The authors. Published by Portland Press Limited on behalf of the Biochemical Society
Open access
Reprinted under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license (CC BY 4.0)

Open access for this article was enabled by the participation of University of Liverpool in an all-inclusive Read & Publish pilot with Portland Press and the Biochemical Society under a transformative agreement with JISC.

I wonder if one day we will find an ID advocate willing to discuss nasty little parasites like this virus and how they square a belief in a creator god who designed them with their belief in a supposedly all-loving god of the Bible and Qur'an. The best they have managed so far is to lie in book reviews such as a 'review' of my popular illustrated book, The Malevolent Designer: Why Nature's God is not Good by an pseudonymous, semi-literate 'reviewer' who clearly hadn't found the courage to read the book, which of course includes the traditional threat of eternal torture by his invisible friend if you don't agree, the irony of that threat from a supposedly omni-benign god apparently lost on him:

This book is biased against the God of the Bible, the Lord Jesus Christ. It is easy to refute.[Refutation by evidence-free assertion!] 1 God created the universe in a perfect state and because God is love, God allowed free will choice in Lucifer, the being whom [sic] became known as Satan, and, in Adam and Eve, the first two humans, whom [sic] betrayed God.
There were no death, parasites, disease, or problems before this.
All of the objections the author makes are answered with one word: SIN. [sic]

God, knowing all things because He is outside of space-time and is the Creator of space-time, pre-designed and pre-programmed the Attack-Defense Structures (venoms, poisons, claws, teeth, immune systems, etc) into the basic genetics of living biology, knowing what would happen.

Here is what God said about it:[sic]

Romans 8:19 For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God.

Romans 8:20 For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope,[sic]

Romans 8:21 Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God.

Romans 8:22 For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now.

Romans 8:23 And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.

Sin has a cost. Death and pain and suffering. And if a person does not get right with God through faith alone in the Lord Jesus Christ alone, they will experience eternal concious suffering and torment in the lake of fire forever.[So you had better believe my evidence-free assertions or my invisible friend will really hurt you!]

For the moment, until someone literate enough and with a mental age above that of a ten-year-old enough has the courage to tackle their problem head on, this will have to do as a Creationist explanation for the apparent malevolence of their beloved divine sadist. It was all Adam's & Eve's fault - and if you don't believe it you'll burn in Hell! Meanwhile Creationist frauds are desperatly trying to fool people into thinking their religion is not religion but genuine science. With friends like their pseudonymous 'reviewer', who needs enemies?

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