It may be here already.
For a value of B that includes "no worse than the starting point",
the so-called "UK variant" currently spreading in the US meets your
criteria. Some projections show it displacing other potentially
more dangerous variants while not not degrading the impact of
vaccination and other public health measures.
Are you starting a conspiracy theory that it was the result of
a clandestine good samaritan molecular biologist?
Ethan
On Wednesday, 17 February 2021 12:39:21 PST Jacob Keller wrote:
> I was under the impression that A,B,C are not strongly or intrinsically
> coupled, for one, since there are so many varieties of viruses with so much
> range of infectiousness and clinical severity. False impression?
>
> B + C = vaccine
>
> A + B + C = immunosysadmin pandemic updater virus. Patient 0 honors given
> for each (yearly?) edition to curry political favor.
>
> JPK
>
>
> On Wed, Feb 17, 2021 at 3:03 PM Tim Gruene <tim.gru...@univie.ac.at> wrote:
>
> > 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
> >
>
>
>
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Ethan A Merritt
Biomolecular Structure Center, K-428 Health Sciences Bldg
MS 357742, University of Washington, Seattle 98195-7742
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