
ALT A diagram showing two SARS-CoV-2 genomes, zoomed to the spike S1 subunit (first half of Spike), as lines. At the top, parent genome BJ.1 is in purple, and parent genome BM.1.1.1 is below in red. The NTD is shown as a blue shaded area, and RBD as an orange shaded area. Towards the end of the lines (around position 250), the purple and red lines cross over each other, to show the recombination (so that red, BJ.1, is now at the top, and purple, BM.1.1.1 is now at the bottom). Below this is another line representing XBB, with defining mutations marked. At the start is is purple to represent the BJ.1 parent, and around position 250 it changes to red, to show the BM.1.1.1 parent.

ALT Mad Magazine's Alfred E. Neuman, as presented on the cover of the December 1957 issue, in which three Neumans are posed as the three wise monkeys. These Neumans' faces have been removed and replaced with the menacing eye of HAL9000 from 2001: A Space Odyssey. The background has been replaced with the code-waterfall effect from The Matrix. Image: Cryteria (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HAL9000.svg CC BY 3.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en Norman Mingo/MAD Magazine (modified)




























