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Coronavirus (COVID-19) is too exciting for adults to discuss (CLOSED)

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Taosman said:
That is very cynical! This is not the 50s and computers are the new Jonas Salk and we are a connected world now which is a double edged sword but creates opportunity for companies to become cash cows from making antiviral products. Sure that in itself is a bit cynical but in a positive way. I have no doubt that multiple effective vaccines will be created in the next 2 years. And treatments will get in the pipeline shortly. Now with that being said the United States will still be troubled by Covid because of the large ant-vacs movement. It's just like Bucklion said. There will be those who just will not be convinced of any vaccine.
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News flash, computers don't figure our how viruses work, humans do...viruses aren't math problems. If computers were the answer then we would have had vaccines for SARS and MERS.
 
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MililaniBuckeye said:
News flash, computers don't figure our how viruses work, humans do...viruses aren't math problems. If computers were the answer then we would have had vaccines for SARS and MERS.
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New Flash . Humans run computers and get answers much quicker from them. But of course you know this. Computers are everywhere and do a lot of the grunt work in problem solving. You know this also. Salk didn't have a computer. Some how the pandemic gang in the previous administration figured out how to stop Ebola. And Sars. Don't always need a vaccine to stop a pandemic. You know this also. Gee! Look how smart you are! :biggrin:
 
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Taosman said:
New Flash . Humans run computers and get answers much quicker from them. But of course you know this. Computers are everywhere and do a lot of the grunt work in problem solving. You know this also. Salk didn't have a computer. Some how the pandemic gang in the previous administration figured out how to stop Ebola. And Sars. Don't always need a vaccine to stop a pandemic. You know this also. Gee! Look how smart you are!
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And computers are only as good as what it put into them, whether it's programming or data. SARS wasn't "stopped" by the pandemic gang in the previous administration, and Ebola has always been rare and sill exists. As muffler pointed out above computers do help in "computational chemistry", but development of a vaccines takes far more than just pumping data into a computer and hoping the program can figure out the best solution...you have to grow the vaccine, test it, rinse, lather, repeat. This ain't the 19060's Star Trek where McCoy inserts a yellow piece of plastic into a slot and out comes the formula for a cure.
 
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MililaniBuckeye said:
And computers are only as good as what it put into them, whether it's programming or data. SARS wasn't "stopped" by the pandemic gang in the previous administration, and Ebola has always been rare and sill exists. As muffler pointed out above computers do help in "computational chemistry", but development of a vaccines takes far more than just pumping data into a computer and hoping the program can figure out the best solution...you have to grow the vaccine, test it, rinse, lather, repeat. This ain't the 19060's Star Trek where McCoy inserts a yellow piece of plastic into a slot and out comes the formula for a cure.
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Don’t ruin Star Trek for me too man. I’m hanging on by the thinnest of threads.
 
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Taosman said:
Mili knows this! He's just being....Mili!
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From below, he understands what I was saying and didn't take it as an argument. Which my post to you isn't to be taken as such either. Just noting.

MililaniBuckeye said:
As muffler pointed out above computers do help in "computational chemistry", but development of a vaccines takes far more than just pumping data into a computer
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All too true.
I work with a gentleman whose wife is getting her doctorate in computational chemistry. It is utterly amazing what can be done to streamline processes, investigations, R&D, et cetera. But, like you intimate, there are still steps in the physical world that have to be done.
 
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