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With other human coronaviruses, it is speculated that we defeat them so easily that we don't develop long-term antibodies, explaining why we get colds with very
by CyanLite2 6y ago
With other human coronaviruses, it is speculated that we defeat them so easily that we don't develop long-term antibodies, explaining why we get colds with very mild symptoms so often.
- partomniscient 6y agoAt some point presumably there is a carrying cost to all the what-if scenarios. If your body contains/maintains a whole host of organisms going around checking whether an unrecognised something is 'one of these bad things' eventually you're going to run out of spare energy to do other basic tasks. At what point does this become optimised to "you're probably one of these, therefore I exterminate you"? Note that when that system goes wrong you could end up in auto-immune disease land, or somehow eventually copy informational mistakes/signals land (cancer). This is my overly-simplistic view though on limited understanding, I am not a medical professional.