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Wait, I thought it was prions. See? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18648043 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18648043
by trey-jones 5y ago
Wait, I thought it was prions. See?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18648043 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18648043
- Red_Leaves_Flyy 5y ago>fallingknife on Dec 10, 2018 >Infectious disease is one area where fear of the unknown is rational. We don't just need to defend against existing diseases, but also diseases yet to emerge. Sage wisdom shared a mere year before the covid outbreak.
- pmlnr 5y agoprions are one of those things I wish I never started reading about. It's like reading about Lovecraftian gods when you know there's nothing that could protect you if it hits you.
- masklinn 5y agoPor que no los dos? But really the potential of prions is so bad if they could realise it we’d already be done for, they’d be a homogenising swarm. Fungi though, fungi already do a lot, and they’re as ridiculously varied and flexible as they’ve been neglected. The next zoonotic threat being fungi makes a lot of sense, and it sounds rather bad.
- matheusmoreira 5y agoPrions are dangerous but unlike fungi they remain rare. Mercifully.