Simple model: when a new virus comes along, either: - My immune system is triggered and kills it and I don't get sick - The virus replicates and causes illness until my immune system learns to recognize and kill it. Vaccines train the immune system without replicating. 1/3
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Or it joins the genotype of the humans. In this case the virus is actually like lamarckian evolution — rna transfer with about 1000 bits of accuracy. Interestingly it’s at about the same rate as the Y chromosome loses data!
12:14 PM - 8 Mar 2020
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