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Originally Posted by Sibelia1 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

cute :P

It's a good question though. I have heard rumors that malarial-resistant populations are resistant to flu manchu - for instance there are some African places with zero cases - and I don't follow why that would protect from corona. I don't know much about malarial resistance factors, so stop me early if u want lol.

Now, the immune system is a neat engine which seeks to recognize, and then remember, highly-specific patterns on the surfaces of enemy biomaterial. It does literally act by recognizing patterns of atoms & molecules on the surface of things it decides deserve death, and creating little chemical "keys" which will stick right to the dang surface of brother virus, perfectly contoured to fit his nose with not one atom amiss. Then it straps napalm to the keys and throws them into your system anytime the registered pattern is detected. So if it is an immune response protecting these jungle folk, then we would expect to see structures from Malaria present on Flu Manchu. Which makes me really paranoid about a spliced virus, okay:

The sort of virus we are capable of making in a lab is a splicing together of multiple organisms' genetic code. We can pretty freely play with adding to the genomes of things; our limitation is that we cannot actually write original proteins yet because we haven't learnt predictively how to fold them. So, we have the level editor, not the dev kit, on viruses.* It should actually be pretty simple to check the published COVID19 genome against genomes of some popular diseases, maybe see if we have some Malarial proteins' codons lifted and spliced into some other identifiable highly-contagious viral package's payload.

[The example frankenstein lab virus, to clarify above paragraph^, is something like -- take the common cold's packaging proteins, but put in there whatever proteins it is that totally JACK you in smallpox. Now u have a smallpox virus with a new route of infection like a cold's. (Sort of, i'm just saying.)]

Not sure if anyone has conducted this simple analysis just yet on the genome. But like actually, if this were an accidental bioweapon leak, a person ought to could see that the virus was of highly suspect origin by this method pretty easily, I think. I don't think the Chinese can author original proteins.

*gnarly huh

lol