Quickly Understanding COVID Variants and Immunity
A complete and simple framework, so you can think for yourself on the matter (and potentially make some wise investments).
With the onset of the pandemic it has become crucial to have at least a basic degree of knowledge on genomics and proteomics. We are currently at war with a cunning organism that inhabits in this genomic/proteomic realm. We can only defeat it within its realm and meanwhile, most of the population is completely unaware of the rules of the game that define this strange molecular space. Many media outlets are leveraging this information arbitrage to monetize the fear and doubt of their audiences, politicians are free to implement unscientific policies that wreak havoc and markets are confused. This can all be fixed through education on proteomics and genomics. The objective of this post is to give you a simple framework to enable you to think for yourself with confidence on the topic. Before we get started, consider reading this more detailed post I wrote.
What is a virus?
A virus is piece of information inside a capsule. Once a virus gets into our body, it heads towards cells, then docks to them and offloads the information contained with it. The information is of a genetic type (for COVID, it´s made…
