Why soap works so well on most viruses

Re:Why soap works so well on most viruses by AgloeDreams on Thursday March 12, 2020 @11:27AM (#22557828)

I have come to view them (from a programer's sense) kinda like functions and stateless services compared to living life which is like classes and other state-y things. It can change classes, it can be mutated and overridden, but does not think or act on its self, it must be interacted with.

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Re:Why soap works so well on most viruses by CuriousSkeptic on Thursday March 12, 2020 @12:52PM (#22558813)

Interesting. I also have a programmers model. But in my head the virus is the static artifact, the code. While what’s living is the process interpreting that code.

Or rather SARS-CoV-2 is the nonliving static code. COVID-19 is the “living” process interpreting the code.

Or your DNA is the code, you’re the living process interpreting that code.

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Re:Why soap works so well on most viruses by wizzwizz4 on Thursday March 12, 2020 @04:04PM (#22561154)

My take: DNA (in a suitable environment) is a self-hosted DNA interpreter executing code to regulate its own environment via RNA JIT bytecode compilation. Viruses are… well, viruses.

The CPU, in this analogy, is physics.

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