tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7826101215822428783.post8847561830257768931..comments2024-02-24T19:42:39.876+05:30Comments on Bill the Butcher: Lockdown in MoronavirustanBill the Butcherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08436195659154078021noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7826101215822428783.post-11110459966966229702020-04-01T14:51:14.816+05:302020-04-01T14:51:14.816+05:30Vaccines
Imagine that there are twin Carmodys, Bo...Vaccines<br /><br />Imagine that there are twin Carmodys, Bob and Sam. Bob and Sam look exactly alike, but Bob is a quiet fellow who never makes a mess or breaks anything, while Sam is a nasty fellow who destroys whatever he can. If Bob gets into a human, he reproduces until the body figures out that he's an undocumented migrant and sends ICE and BP to round up Bob and all his reproductions and put them all in a concentration camp without food or water until they all expire (but not before Bob has infected one or more other humans). If Sam gets into a human, he causes severe illness, death up to 99% of the time. A vaccine is a copy of Bob. The body learns to recognise Bob and get rid of any copy of him that comes along. And since Sam looks just like Bob, the body recognises him and sends ICE and BP to put him in a concentration camp before he can do any harm.<br /><br />In real life, Bob was the Bovine Pox, a common, harmless virus that's very common in bovines (vacca is Latin for bovine, which is why we called bovine pox a vaccine), and scientists noticed that cowgirls seldom got smallpox. Sam was Smallpox. If one had been infected with Bovine Pox, Smallpox was not a problem, your body would stop it before it could do any damage.<br /><br />One creates a modern vaccine by taking the RNA or DNA of a virus that causes serious problems and creating a version the body will recognise as the virus but which doesn't cause any problems.<br /><br />MichaelWmeAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7826101215822428783.post-63960393792892776932020-04-01T14:22:40.415+05:302020-04-01T14:22:40.415+05:30I read too much. Trying to learn more about the fl...I read too much. Trying to learn more about the flu, I found that there is no unambiguous, universally accepted definition. Some insist the flu is a single family of viruses. A respiratory infection by a different virus is not the flu, and there are only a few thousand cases of flu a year. The more common definition is that the flu is any viral respiratory infection that is worse than a cold but not as bad as pneumonia (not quite unambiguous, but widely used). So I was unable to find out how CoViD-19 compares with the annual flu, since I could not find out what the annual flu really was.<br /><br />The claim that one can trust "an internationally renowned microbiologist" is a bit optimistic: all the ones on TV or prominent on the Web have been hired by some people who figure they can use those microbiologists' pronouncements to make money.<br /><br />MichaelWmeAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com