Humanity Is Domesticating One of Its Oldest Predators Responsible for the Deaths of Millions

Red State ^ | March 12, 2025 | Brandon Morse

[Honorary Serb]

We’ve had vaccine viruses for about 100 years!

And we have decades-old virus-based entities that we use to manufacture biotech proteins that are the basis of various drugs.

I don’t have access to get beyond the paywall, but it sounds as if this is nothing new.

[Colorado Doug]

Except in Colorado where out idiots in government want to turn wild wolves loose on rural Coloradens.

[ifinnegan]

Behind a paywall.

I assume it’s talking about gene therapy.

Here’s a video of the first gene therapy patient who had the “bundle boy” disease.

https://youtu.be/IgES04-cSr8?si=rJS-dekYLzMP7qUp

[Lazamataz]

I’ll put you guys down as opposing cancer research and cures.

Sure! And I'll put you down as Pro-Zombie-Apocalypse!

[Lazamataz]

I just hope we get the slow and stupid zombies from The Walking Dead, and not the speedy ones from World War Z.

The ones in WWZ behaved in some ways like insects, in particular, ants. Ants use their bodies to create bridges.

[Fledermaus]

Oh please. It’s a throw away line for fun. What’s up your butt?

Hope i don’t ever get the color of Capt. Kirk’s tunic wrong.

[Mariner]

Mother Nature says: Don’t mess with virii.

[Fledermaus]

The humorless are out today.

[Ronaldus Magnus III]

My immediate thoughts were:

Pelousy and Schumer

Predators, yes

Domesticated, hardly

[Lazamataz]

Oh please. It’s a throw away line for fun. What’s up your butt? Hope i don’t ever get the color of Capt. Kirk’s tunic wrong.

DugwayDuke seems to be missing a sense of humor.

BTW, is it yellow, or gold? Ha HA!

[Fledermaus]

And I’ll put you down as pro killing of millions with Fauci.

[Lazamataz]

The humorless are out today.

What a miserable world to have to live in!

[Fledermaus]

Got you - it was the green fold over tunic from from “The Trouble With Tribbles”.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

That said, there are labs out there that are attempting to change the virus to help harm humankind, not harm help it, and it would appear they're already having success.

An equally true statement.

[Magnum44]

You can most definitely put me down for Zombie rules!

[READINABLUESTATE]

I, for one, welcome our new zombie overlords.

[HartleyMBaldwin]

Read John Ringo’s Black Tide Rising series. Now there’s a zombie apocalypse.

[Larry Lucido]

I've seen this before. One word. Michonne.

[Rockingham]

Uh, yeah, it would be a good thing to destroy cancers with viruses.

[Getready]

Overly optimistic viewpoint. Back in 1969, IIRC, the head of the AMA stated that we had overcome bacterial infections and they were a thing of the past. Hindsight suggest he was spectacularly wrong.
There are at least 200,000 different virii in seawater alone. The total amount is estimated as 1 nonillion. (1 followed by 30 zeros)...there are approximately 50 million bacteriophages(viruses that attack bacteria) per 5ml of seawater.
Sometimes when a virus genome is altered it has new body tissues it can attack. For instance, an unaltered virus might attack respiratory tissue, but a slight variation might let it attack other tissues. Not good.
There will be tremendous discoveries that are helpful. We will not know the effect of altered viruses on the whole biome beforehand. Beneficence is sometimes overcome by greed. Rosy colored future predictions are ignorant.
Best cases in point: opioids relieve heavy duty pain, but kill millions. Ethanol brings social lubrication and a mild euphoria, but kills millions.