Re:Systems design explains the world: volume 1
by Geminidog on Tuesday December 29, 2020 @01:26PM
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You could say Ebola is designed to live in another more competitive ecosystem where it’s abilities are rendered less effective thereby maintaining an equilibrium. This ecosystem is the illusive reservoir that epidemiologists are looking for. The suspicion is that this reservoir is bats and that bats have an immune system that can easily pacify the virus.
When the virus is introduced into humans it arrives as an invasive species overloading the habitat and destroying itself.
Re:Systems design explains the world: volume 1
by bsradcliffe on Monday December 28, 2020 @11:28PM
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Yeah. SARS-CoV-2 has proven to be about near the perfect virus this year.
Re:Systems design explains the world: volume 1
by WalterBright on Tuesday December 29, 2020 @03:53AM
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Not really, as the body kills the virus or the virus kills the body and then dies with it.
The ideal virus is one that easily spreads and does no harm to its host, or even improves the survival of its host. Our bodies are full of these organisms, like our gut bacteria.