It takes just one boat to stop traffic on one of Sydneyâs busiest roads.
An estimated 75,000 vehicles and 35,000 bus passengers use the Spit Bridge across Middle Harbour from Mosman to Seaforth every day.
Yet the bridge is raised six times a day from Monday to Friday for an average of between one and five boats per opening. On weekends and public holidays, the bridge is raised eight times a day, for 10 to 15 boats each time.
The Spit Bridge is is raised six times on weekdays for an average of one to five boats per opening.
Credit:Steven Saphore
A Transport for NSW spokeswoman said the bridge - the only remaining opening bridge on Sydneyâs road network - is raised for up to 15 minutes each time depending on the level of maritime traffic and the day of the week.
In other words, perhaps, the coronavirus virus uses long-term infections as a mutational testing ground. While inside one person, they can try out all these different combinations of mutations and figure out, through trial and error, which ones are best at evading the immune system or helping the virus become more infectious.
Nothing new and textbook virus evolution. However, the leap to the last sentence is not and is not the most likely outcome, rather the opposite, in my opinion, and very poorly worded.
And this process is likely happening again right now, worldwide, in other immunocompromised patients. Eventually, these new variants could mutate again and create even more dangerous forms of the virus.
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