sigh it’s only going to continue to reprogram and optimize this trait. Time to move out to the Alaska wilderness and live off the grid. At least being mauled by a bear would be a cool death
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If you contract some novel shit from the thawing permafrost maybe they'll at least name it after you
Deion, this is Timmy Thomas .... [whispering] he has Timmy Thomas disease
PD-L1 can bind to T cells and inhibit them in a variety of ways, including their ability to tell other immune cells that a pathogenic threat is present.
Essentially, you have these cells that are your first responders in your non-adaptive immune system, neutrophils. They go in, ring the alarm, and blast stuff with acid. COVID can turn them into the fuck you guy and straights up distracting my T-cells and messing with my mojo.
COVID is giving my immune cells ADHD?? 
lmao the unmasked heathens in the video in the link (1:10)
"the reason we're seeing such an increase in other respiratory illnesses is because our immunity's been downregulated by COVID19......Most important thing is stay vaccinated, mask up uhh if you're in a crowded area...and uhh AND if you're immunocompromised, nevermind if you're not tho just keep inhaling that shit in till you are and everyone else is dead"
So we'll lock everything down until we can develop a new vaccine, right?
Oh look... HIV has gone airborne...
Unlike HIV, it's not a permanent effect and affects a different kind of white blood cell in a different way. White blood cells live no longer than a few days at maximum, and neutrophils which this article talks about are even shorter-lived. It's likely part of why covid can be so severe, but once the body has cleared the virus there's no reason to suspect that this effect goes on.
HIV is an unrelated virus to the one that causes covid, and kills a specific and important type of immune cell, doing so over the course of many years and leading to a total breakdown in the immune system's effectiveness, i.e. AIDS. This isn't what SARS-CoV-2 does and if it did, we'd say that it causes AIDS rather than saying that HIV has gone airborne, and hundreds of millions of people would be dead.
It's likely part of why covid can be so severe, but once the body has cleared the virus there's no reason to suspect that this effect goes on.
However, the body can take months sometimes years to clear Covid. From what we know. 
This isn't what SARS-CoV-2 does and if it did, we'd say that it causes AIDS
Potato, potato. . I don't think anyone here talking about airborne HIV actually thinks Covid is HIV. It's just a useful comparison in a world trying to downplay it as a "cold."
The problem is that covid can infect places that are hard for our immune systems to clear, like the gut, and there are theories that a lot of long covid cases come from persistent infections, The frequency of reinfections doesn't help, either. China, I believe, has started treated people with drugs used to treat HIV for this reason. In the rules based international community 
we want to pretends it's over and isn't severe anymore and are leaving people with long covid to fend for themselves.
A lot of the new variants that show up are believed to derive from long term infections, particularly people with suppressed immune systems, where the virus can spend months mutating.
I remember when I said it was airborne AIDS in 2020 and the entire left + liberal + conservative world told me I was nuts and the latter two told me I was a Chinese shill for insisting it came from the USA (the former just told me I was crazy)
HahahahhahaHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
called it in like 2021
m4y02 did global warming
m4y02 did covid
m4y02 did 99% of animal extinctions