Todd Rider looks and acts exactly how I expected he-- We're barely a minute in and I'm already seeing Star Trek references and K'NEX blocks, what the fuck
Dr. Todd Rider is the inventor of DRACO. He's a genius. He figured out how to stitch proteins together into molecules that trigger virus-infected cells into committing sudoku.
His work had interest from DARPA, for crying out loud. They wanted a broad-spectrum antivirus for US troops, specifically for pandemic/bioweapon scenarios where the specific agent was unknown (i.e. an antivirus that would work no matter the species of virus).
The K'NEX analogy is more apropos than you realize. DRACO is literally two entirely different protein binding domains stitched together in a configuration not found in nature, like the ends of a bar magnet.
One end of a DRACO sticks to viral double-stranded RNA. The other end sticks to your cell's own caspase, triggering cell death. It's simple and ingenious.
Which begs the question: why the fuck are you still here? Everyone has made it obvious to you that we're not interested in what you have to say about the coronavirus. And you (want us to believe that you) have private discussions with PhD biologists and virologists where you're all 'fighting the good fight', heroes that you are. If you've got their attention, who cares what us shitposters on an autist forum think?
I suppose I saw the great big COVID-19 thread and I wrongly assumed there was a large amount of interest on the topic, here.
A lot of discussion on the pathology and the casualties of this virus falls well outside the Overton Window, as evidenced by how I was banned from numerous forums for talking about mass cremations in Wuhan and posting doomy-sounding lists of signs and symptoms.
Basically, I hoped that Kiwi Farms, what with your obvious archival and investigative expertise, could dig into this and uncover the truth.
After all, if you guys could doxx me and pull up the past twenty years of my shitposting, then you also have the power to expose the 50 Cent Army jackasses who are trying to bury all the evidence of COVID-19's lethality and virulence.
All I am asking is that people consider my words. I'm not saying I'm a hero scientist, or that I'm some sort of super-intelligent virology wiz after studying the topic for all of two months. I don't care about personal acclaim. I don't care about stroking my own ego or whatever it is that everyone on here imagines this is about.
My
sole motivation in pursuing this issue as aggressively as I have is preventing the gruesome deaths of my family, friends, and coworkers, as well as our doctors, nurses, and EMTs. I know people with AMR ambulances. I know people at Virginia Mason in Seattle and at their clinic in Bainbridge Island. I don't want to see them come to harm.
Nobody knows what a hero looks like anymore.
All they see is a "messiah complex".
They've been trained, for years and years, and brainwashed, to the point where heroes aren't even a thing that exist.
I'm not talking about me.
Do you see them? The doctors and nurses charging headfirst into this, with minimal personal protection?
Documenting the marks the pandemic is leaving on medical professionals in Italy
www.theatlantic.com
When I went down with asthma last year, I spoke with the EMTs in the back of the ambulance as they carried me to the ER.
One of them, she used to take sertraline because she had anxiety, because being an EMT had traumatized her to that extent.
Being an EMT is no joke. You see people's family members screaming, begging you to resuscitate their loved ones, even when there's nothing you can do. You see it over and over again. It is a literal hell.
She was one of the nicest people I'd ever met. She doesn't deserve to die just because she transported a COVID-19 patient without proper personal protective equipment.
Just like Dr. Ming Lin didn't deserve to be fired for demanding PPE for his fellow healthcare workers.
The removal of a Bellingham doctor who raised concerns about a lack of protections for health-care workers should be investigated by the state attorney general and state medical commission, a national emergency room physicians group said Saturday.
www.seattletimes.com
You may not recognize it yet, but that is the face of a hero.
Just like the heroes working at Kaiser's hospitals, who were threatened with firing just because they dared to protect themselves from this virus:
California Kaiser Permanente facilities downgraded coronavirus protective standards to shore up supplies, but said nurses couldn’t wear their own gear.
theintercept.com
Do you see the heroes?
Do you see them?
I do.
