Albrenia wrote:Nobel Hobos 2 wrote:
Oh nice. "That was before I did time" gets you out of being the author of some of the crazy ideas we're talking about.
Face it, the whole world is safer if Donald Trump watches Fox And Friends, than if it would be if he read General for his ideas.
Imagines the policy whiplash though. One minute he'd be authorising dogs as an execution method and the next he'd be instituting a UBI.
No, dogs would be banned. IM made a thread arguing that we should ban dogs.
Nobel Hobos 2 wrote:The Greater Ohio Valley wrote:Hopefully we can develop effective antiviral treatments for COVID by then so we can at least lessen the severity of things by the time a vaccine gets here.
A good enough treatment would make a vaccine unnecessary.
Which begs the question. After trillions of dollars of investment why haven't pharmas developed some chemical that kills ANY kind of virus in the bloodstream?
Is there some way that killing viruses in the bloodstream is actually bad? Are there any essential viruses we need to stay healthy?
It is a serious question to the experts here. Why do we need to wait for variations of a know virus to appear, then take a year or more to kill the bastard? Why don't we already have a medicine that just kills viruses?
That's easier said than done because viruses are highly diverse, and many chemicals that have the potential to damage a virus would also damage human cells.
Also, killing all the viruses in your body would make you more vulnerable to bacterial infections because there are viruses that prey on bacteria.
Most viruses are not harmful. People just notice the dangerous ones a lot more than the benign ones.