Covid19 Questions

1. What events pop the heads? Give specific events, no mumbling about ACE2 receptors or glycan reactions.
2. Why don’t owls eat all the bats? No mightabes or whatabouts. It mightabe my ass.
3. Do the heads have to pop for infection to occur? As a male, I would think so. We don’t even know that much.
4. What is immune memory? Thymus is involved.
5. Why is there any immune reaction? Covid19 is covered in our glycan.
6. How are we infected by a virus covered in foreign glycan?
7. Is there any distinction between the glycoprotein covering the virus and our own? If there is such a distinction, is it consistent?
8. What are the specific immune events at the cell wall? Again, no mumbling about pathways or mightabes.
9. What clears the virus?
10. Does the virus clear? Please don’t test this with immune reaction.
11. What is the progression of the disease?
12. Is HIV a coronavirus?

Get your flu shot. Get a Covid19 vaccine when it comes. Stay away from people. Don’t be a jerk. Don’t argue by metaphor or analogy. Every illness is different.

Covid19 Isn’t Cancer

 Crossing disciplines can be a source for inspiration and embarrassment. BioNTech recently made an announcement of 90% effectiveness. I suspect that the oncologists meant 90% in the body and the virologists heard 90% in the population.

BioNTech, as everyone else, is targeting the heads that pop up on the virus when it is about to infect. They have recognized that the white blood cell response is inadequate and they are conflicting with the virus at the cell wall. The company’s specialty is provoking this cellular response without the mediation of white blood cells. This makes perfect sense with tumors. 

The white blood cells keep immune memory. Covid19 virus coats in our glycan and thereby avoids white blood cell response. The BioNTech candidate avoids this issue but it can’t confer lasting immunity.

If we surround an Ebola spot outbreak with this type of intervention, it should be effective. That doesn’t mean that the population can go back to passing around dead bodies. In the United States, we have 10 million reported sick. Using the multiple of 10 given by various studies, we have 100 million true infected, or about one third of our population.

The danger is in the use of the word vaccine. People hear vaccine and they think the epidemic is finished. Please use the word treatment. This is not a vaccine. It is an immune response treatment.