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Post by drystyx on May 8, 2020 1:04:11 GMT
I realize the meat processing plants are great breeding grounds for covid because of close quarters, but so are many other places.
Could there be something else, perhaps the molecules in the air that come from meat, that enhance the virus, feed the virus?
Or could the molecules from the meat that get in the air, making the aroma, link up with molecules that otherwise would naturally inhibit the virus? Thus, allowing the virus extra credentials to act, more time to act, more space to act?
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Post by Sarge on May 10, 2020 7:02:23 GMT
I went to school for biology but never worked in the field, nothing in my schooling would suggest that a virus would be enhanced or inhibited by the organic molecules in meat aroma. Viruses are not alive so they do not eat or grow and have no use for dead flesh. Viruses inject their dna into living cells and hijack the nucleus to make copies of the virus which eventually overrun and burst the cell wall flooding into surrounding cells, hijacking them into making more virus. The longer the host lives, the more it spreads the virus. SARSCOV2 hedges its bets by having a long incubation period so the host is spreading the virus for a week or so before symptoms appear. Viruses are very much like zombies, they are dead, have no use for other dead things, and spread their infection by 'biting' the living.
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