Hi Jacob, how do you think this should be possible? In order to infect others, the virus particle needs to proliferate (that's the only thing it does). It profilerates by hijacking the machinery of one cell of your body and turn it into a virus factory. Your body does not like this abuse and kills the cell, and also tries to kill the virus particles. The virus does not make you sick, it only captures one cell. The reaction of your body to kick out the virus, and the cell that does not do it's job anymore, make you sick. A and B are mutually exclusive. B + C is named vaccine.
Best, Tim On Wed, 17 Feb 2021 12:33:09 -0500 Jacob Keller <jacobpkel...@gmail.com> wrote: > It would seem to me that it should be possible to generate versions > of the Covid virus that would: > > A. be extremely contagious and yet > B. be clinically benign, and > C. confer immunity to the original covid virus. > > If, then, this virus could be released, with appropriate "kill switch" > safeguards built in, would this not solve the world's pandemic > problems? Is there any reason, practically, why this approach would > not be feasible? > > Maybe we don't really know enough to manipulate A, B, C yet? > > Or maybe it's too scary for primetime...nightmare bio-warfare > apocalypse? > > Has this sort of thing been done, or does it have a name? > > Jacob -- -- Tim Gruene Head of the Centre for X-ray Structure Analysis Faculty of Chemistry University of Vienna Phone: +43-1-4277-70202 GPG Key ID = A46BEE1A ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the CCP4BB list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/WA-JISC.exe?SUBED1=CCP4BB&A=1 This message was issued to members of www.jiscmail.ac.uk/CCP4BB, a mailing list hosted by www.jiscmail.ac.uk, terms & conditions are available at https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/policyandsecurity/
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