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My undergrad is in biology and I got it many years ago. I can only imagine how much has changed since then. Does anyone think that in the infinite complexity o

My undergrad is in biology and I got it many years ago. I can only imagine how much has changed since then. Does anyone think that in the infinite complexity of the human body and the immune system that we think we have 'figured covid out' by discovering a single spike protein? There's such an endless possibility of how Covid can interact with the body. We are just touching the surface of how the body works. They just discovered a new organelle in cells this year. So for any single group to claim a monopoly on truth and censor other views, especially with only a year and a half of study... is a major problem.

atleta 5y ago
Yet again, a strawman. Or a few: 1., nobody said "we figured covid out". I said we learned a lot about it pretty quickly. (BTW, coronaviruses and SARS in particular have been researched pretty intensively since 2003, the first SARS pandemic.) 2., they didn't just discover a "single spike protein" > There's such an endless possibility of how Covid can interact with the body. Actually, no. There are indeed very definitive ways SARS-CoV2 (or any virus, for that matter) can interact with the body. It's not a living thing. It needs to get into specific type of cells and it can only do it through the spike protein which will only bind to the ACE2 receptor. As long as/if it doesn't happen, the virus is an inert particle. E.g. it won't proliferate in mice (without genetically making them susceptible) or in most other animals. Also, we have a lot of virus particles in us that can't interact with the human cells, so we'll never know about them. One interesting comment from the above curse was that prof. Racaniello said that you can learn bout your "virome" by sequencing your stool and some experiment found that the most frequent virus in there is some plant virus (which don't even have the capability to enter even plant cells by themselves).
- nickthemagicman 5y ago
  >>>There are indeed very definitive ways SARS-CoV2 (or any virus, for that matter) can interact with the body. >>>the virus is an inert particle. Couldn't the same thing be said about the thinking about Thalidomide though?

atleta 5y ago

Yet again, a strawman. Or a few: 1., nobody said "we figured covid out". I said we learned a lot about it pretty quickly. (BTW, coronaviruses and SARS in particular have been researched pretty intensively since 2003, the first SARS pandemic.) 2., they didn't just discover a "single spike protein" > There's such an endless possibility of how Covid can interact with the body. Actually, no. There are indeed very definitive ways SARS-CoV2 (or any virus, for that matter) can interact with the body. It's not a living thing. It needs to get into specific type of cells and it can only do it through the spike protein which will only bind to the ACE2 receptor. As long as/if it doesn't happen, the virus is an inert particle. E.g. it won't proliferate in mice (without genetically making them susceptible) or in most other animals. Also, we have a lot of virus particles in us that can't interact with the human cells, so we'll never know about them. One interesting comment from the above curse was that prof. Racaniello said that you can learn bout your "virome" by sequencing your stool and some experiment found that the most frequent virus in there is some plant virus (which don't even have the capability to enter even plant cells by themselves).

nickthemagicman 5y ago
>>>There are indeed very definitive ways SARS-CoV2 (or any virus, for that matter) can interact with the body. >>>the virus is an inert particle. Couldn't the same thing be said about the thinking about Thalidomide though?