[conspire] "immunity" (COVID-19, ...) Re: Numbers racket

[Deirdre Saoirse Moen]

This is a good 10-minute video about mad cow. You’re right that the prion diseases are another level of badness. I remember being fascinated by the whole idea that protein folding was another level of research above and beyond everything we’d looked at before.

Like, how many things we’ve missed are just…protein folding issues?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXcLb4oCYfg

Deirdre

> On May 3, 2020, at 22:04, paulz at ieee.org wrote:
> 
> Mad cow disease is weird in a couple of ways.  Many organic molecules twist themselves into a particular geometry.  
> In many cases, it is possible for the exact same molecule to be folded in a different shape.  Then it behaves differently.
> 
> Mad cow disease can happen spontaneously.  Some molecule somehow gets itself twisted in the wrong way.  Then it touches other molecules and some of them twist around.
> During the mad cow problems of the late 1990's ranchers had a hard time understanding that their cattle which had never been off the ranch could still be suspect.
> 
> Bacteria in food can be killed by exposure cooking.  Not so mad cow molecules.
> 
> The wife of a friend started having memory problems.  It was diagnosed as Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease.  She was dead in less than a year.
> 
> Creutzfeldt–Jakob

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