My point was one of "Phylum". A virus and a plasmodium are not "cousins". One is more like a computer virus (the biological virus): a sort of "hanging chad" of genetic information that when input into our computer causes a malf (malfunction). The other is a worm that likes to live in us and is a parasite.
A medicine designed to kill a living parasite shout have no effect on a non-living "chunk of (genetic) code."
Yes. And indeed there is still a possibility that it does something to the cells that prevents viral replication, etc. But it's still ... odd. And the explanations we have received on the topic of what has effectively been the most important medical issue of our lives and treatments that treat it have been woefully inadequate. And my level of trust in these people is, at this point, ZERO.
This is very true.
My point was one of "Phylum". A virus and a plasmodium are not "cousins". One is more like a computer virus (the biological virus): a sort of "hanging chad" of genetic information that when input into our computer causes a malf (malfunction). The other is a worm that likes to live in us and is a parasite.
A medicine designed to kill a living parasite shout have no effect on a non-living "chunk of (genetic) code."
Something is up, here.
Could it treat symptoms?
Yes. And indeed there is still a possibility that it does something to the cells that prevents viral replication, etc. But it's still ... odd. And the explanations we have received on the topic of what has effectively been the most important medical issue of our lives and treatments that treat it have been woefully inadequate. And my level of trust in these people is, at this point, ZERO.