Peter Todd @pete@petertodd.org

@dsmatthews@mastodon.online But again, you have the genetic drift problem. There's no reason for the protective genetic modifications to stay over the generations. So they'll almost certainly go away over time, requiring reapplication.

@drgo @ibz Nuclear weapons are about as useful to stopping armed rebellions as they are to treating cancer.

@drbitcoinmd What do you find bizzare about it? The only big difference I see is the barriers it poses to easily seeing a wider range of posts. But even that isn't that big of a barrier.

@dsmatthews@mastodon.online I wouldn't be so sure it'd be safe... The huge rise in allergies and other autoimmune disorders are likely a consequence of a lack of challenges to the immune system. And we don't even live *that* clean lives.

There's also the simpler issue that the protection isn't lifelong. So if the supply runs out - eg in a natural disaster - you now have a second disaster on your hands.

@drgo @ibz For example, it'd be quite hard for Trump to order a nuclear strike right now, because there are humans in the loop.

@alyssa Port forwarding on your router?

@parkeralewis What's diferent isn't whether or not
@nvk is a trustworthy or benevolent dicator. What's different with Mastodon is how easy it is to just pick another dictator.

Since I'm self-hosting, I'm my own dictator.

@dsmatthews@mastodon.online Ah, yes, I did miss that you think it could stop all such viruses. That'd be an interesting result! Potentially harmful though: we evolved in the presence of respiratory illness. Getting rid of it isn't necessarily safe.

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/01/10/capitol-riot-jpmorgan-and-citigroup-join-us-corporations-pausing-political-donations.html

"JPMorgan, the biggest U.S. bank by assets, is pausing contributions for both Republicans and Democrats for “at least” the next six months, according to spokesman Steve O’Halloran."

IMO that banks are pausing donations to _both_ sides is a sign that they're really terrified of regulation.

They're being forced to do something by public pressure - and pressure from their own leftist employees. But they don't want common-carrier regulation imposed on them.

@alanturing Probably a bigger jump than it looks, because a lot of those statuses last week would have been bots.

@alyssa @MsHodl ...as opposed to butt butts.

@alyssa @MsHodl The goats are coming. They want headbutts.

@dsmatthews@mastodon.online So what I've read is they think those strains happened specifically because of antibody treatment therapy.

"Unless eliminated all viruses & bacteria evolve to avoid vaccines" <- that claim obviously can't be strictly true, as we've had, for example, measles vaccination for decades without resistance evolving, even without measles being eliminated.

@RonaldCrb @Jeremiah23 No coincidence that Biden is saying he will defeat the NRA.

@alyssa @MsHodl THEY CAN'T CENSOR THE GOAT STAMPEDE!!!

@ajtowns @stephanlivera @kalle @verretor .

@ajtowns @stephanlivera @kalle @verretor For the record, that was an intentional typo. One of very few. :P

@dsmatthews@mastodon.online Though note that all the covid vaccines are safe to use in the immunocompromised, as none of them are live virus types. Though they might not work all that well - I agree in that case your idea might work better.

But re: the virus evolving to evade the vaccines, there's very, very, few examples of diseases evolving vaccine resistance. Thing is, vax's stimulate your immune system to basically evolve a defense. That's much harder to evolve resistance too.