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msuffidy:
The usual way of dealing with virus is isolating them, making a lot of them. Killing them and then injecting some of the ripped up bits into the body for it to start making antibodies against.  I hear it has to be tested for side effects and tuned for response, and this takes a few months to do.

Fundamentally it would be nice to mess up how virus works after it enters a cell, but the problem is it is looks a lot like what humans are made out of in the first place. Remdesivir was something intended to do this for RNA virus.

There is a pretty complete video about how covid-19 works and some strategies against it here:


I mean in SCI-FI  it would great to do like a micron scale scan of the entire planet and somehow materialize ionizing energy at all those points, but I am guessing that can't be done right now.
cdev:
This is a good video.

Notice what she says about how there are literally thousands of bat coronaviruses still in bats that have yet to emerge. But likely will in the future. That means we need a new approach to this, otherwise it will be like highway robbery every few years where everybody who cannot cough up everything demanded gets to take a huge risk of dying and in fact, many will die. It will be the modern day version of paying tribute to your local feudal lord.


--- Quote from: msuffidy on May 07, 2020, 10:46:26 pm ---The usual way of dealing with virus is isolating them, making a lot of them. Killing them and then injecting some of the ripped up bits into the body for it to start making antibodies against.  I hear it has to be tested for side effects and tuned for response, and this takes a few months to do.

Fundamentally it would be nice to mess up how virus works after it enters a cell, but the problem is it is looks a lot like what humans are made out of in the first place. Remdesivir was something intended to do this for RNA virus.

There is a pretty complete video about how covid-19 works and some strategies against it here:



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Marco:

--- Quote from: dietert1 on May 05, 2020, 07:59:11 pm ---Nobody knows what will happen, but sometimes i think corona may be the cure nature invented to protect this planet from another pandemic. What we call human civilization became a plague.

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Nature is sickness and plague non stop. Human civilization is the one chance man has to escape nature and escape we must. Nature sucks, death sucks.
dietert1:
Oh boy. When i see those youtube comment videos regarding "The escape"... There is a certain boyish personality who really believe that crap has some meaning other than making money from entertainment.
Yes, human capabilities are tremendous, but so are human failures. Typical human failure: Well, doctors tell me that virus disease may be lethal and they can't heal it, but let's wait how bad it really is. Hospitals are full of people ashamed of being infected.
Some days ago one of our virus experts said: If i can't sleep it's because of USA, Brasil and India. As far as i know there is no other cure than the one invented by the Chinese: Wear masks, observe distance. South Korea just reports another outbreak that may affect several thousand people. It originated in a bar..

Regards, Dieter
Marco:
That's a rather bizarre jump to make.
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