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The search for people who never get Covid
- anonymouswacker 5y agoKnowing now that COVID-19 was most likely created in a lab, and that most governments lack the will or wherewithal to address it, what is to stop the "bad guys" from using this same information (natural antibodies) to create the next iteration that is more deadly? I personally lost trust in most corporations that can easily be bought out. In cyber sec terms, the same hands funding the Red Team (virology lab in Wuhan) are profiting from the Blue Team (pharma). It's like the Broken Window fallacy except killing people.
- armchairhacker 5y ago> But the researchers might have an almost impossible task Yeah I don't see how you'll be able to find someone whose not just immune to covid, but immune from genetics. Because someone could've e.g. gotten a small dose, been asymptomatic, and then started producing antibodies. Or maybe they're just very healthy and not genetically susceptible to covid (because really healthy people can still get really sick). Or maybe the process which produces antibodies got lucky and activated / produced the right ones early in infection. And now that vaccines are out, you have to find someone whose also unvaccinated.
- newsbinator 5y agoLots of people are unvaccinated and hanging out indoors in public without masks in the middle of covid central: 3/4ths of the country of Ukraine, for example. It’s still hard to differentiate someone who’s naturally immune from someone who has one or several asymptomatic infections, you’re right.