Care to be a little bit more charitable with evidence to refute that statement?

As far as I know that’s exactly how it works.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adaptive_immune_system

Also, what’s your objective in slinging insults like that?

1. Not really

2. No, viruses do not behave like bacteria.

3. To balance my upvotes against my downvotes to maintain my karma at 2600.

Let me recommend something to you. It's called Autoimmune diseases. Good luck

"They're called". You can't even get your insult right in text?

Would you please stop posting unsubstantive comments and also stop breaking the site guidelines? You've been doing both of those things a lot, unfortunately. But you've also posted good (for HN) comments. If you'd stick to the latter, we'd be grateful.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Fair point. I think I'll take a short break from commenting as clearly I'm getting a bit snappy.