You guys want less doom and more hope? You want to fight and win against this thing? I have a plan. Listen up.
I've been looking into something called DRACO. It's an acronym. Double-Stranded RNA Activated Caspase Oligomerizer.
I'm not going to fucking put his citation up in this quote this shit is messy as is
In a published scientific paper in Plos One, it worked exactly as expected:
Currently there are relatively few antiviral therapeutics, and most which do exist are highly pathogen-specific or have other disadvantages. We have developed a new broad-spectrum antiviral approach, dubbed Double-stranded RNA (dsRNA) Activated Caspase Oligomerizer (DRACO) that selectively...
journals.plos.org
blah blah blah blah his opinion blah blah blah idgaf
I know petitions are bullshit, but I signed this one, anyway:
Bring back DRACO antiviral against Coronavirus disease (COVID-19)
www.change.org
Maybe we could tweet this thing at Trump or Elon Musk and see if they'd be willing to spare any dough for it?
This could be useful for more than just SARS-CoV-2. It's also theoretically effective against influenza, colds, herpes, et cetera.