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Rudolph Rigger's avatar

These days it would seem that evolution is conveniently ignored. The Tabla Rasa approach, everything you are is socially conditioned, or "constructed". You can be anything you want. No you bloody well can't.

The solutions evolution has come up in response to particular environmental stressors may not always be "perfect", but most of the time they're damn close to optimal (a constrained optimization reaching a local extremum) for that environment. We ignore them at our peril.

Maybe we can "augment" things biologically - maybe there are "tweaks" that can help - but if you're coming up with an augmentation like persistently high antibody levels you'd better understand why evolution did not come up with this as a solution, and why you think your "solution" is better.

There will be a *reason* why evolution did not come up with the solution of persistently high antibodies - probably several reasons - and we'd better understand every last one of them to the nth degree before proceeding with an experimental augmentation.

Great article Marc, thanks.

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coords1306's avatar

I got vaccinated. Haven't gotten boosted. The bait and switch on the boosters annoyed me. Suddenly it wasn't a vaccine that teaches your body how to response but about antibody levels in the blood that they don't know how much of marks safety but are immunobridging to push the age down on authorization. LIke this article digs into what my thoughts were. If these antibodies were optimal the body would keep antibodies around all the time. Must be a reason the body gets rid of them after time. So reupping every 6 months is not a viable path, not to me.

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