I could write a small novel in response. But, it would be from a Markus based perspective. And would therefore have little value to anyone else. So, I’ll be brief and say “Yes” as long as YOU have things to live for that bring you satisfaction. The Collectivists have a long way to go before they sap that will to live from me. I have a lot of things to see and do yet. And if they do succeed they’ll have a whole other problem on their hands. Let’s just say I believe in “Net Wins” when it comes down to wars of attrition. And that’s all I’m gonna say about that.

The rare host cells that do survive the viral infection have the opportunity to become resistant. Such mutations are potentially beneficial, but sometimes with consequences. I am not someone who freaks out over genetically modified foods, but when one looks at the number of people with allergies now compared to many years ago, such "natural selection" almost certainly has resulted in mutations that may or may not be good from an evolutionary standpoint.

It absolutely is , To answer your initial Question Prof. I was intially confused about “Who is John Galt” in Atlas Shrugged. The fact that people from all walks of life would say it in response to another idiotic response to a problem. Was an interesting concept . I had never experienced an automatic verbal response to collectivism like that saying. That is until now. “Let’s Go Brandon” Is “The Who is John Galt “of my life time.
Just another proof the Atlas Shrugged is now non-fiction.
Regarding We the living (not the book) . My wife and I have consciously been living each day to the fullest, knowing that things can change in a flash, and we want to not have any regrets of the we should have could have. We try to live in a balanced happy state of mind.
Regarding today’s incredibly corrupt satanic Globalist pedo-files, I have to say they are hell bent on destroying anything Good. They do it in a very Uncivilized manner. That’s why I say we are in the “Uncivil War” it is simply a war between Good and Evil or Darkness and light.
I am very optimistic about our future, because for the first time the masses are awakened to the tyrannical Cabal and are rising up against it. Also Durham Investigation , Election fraud , Big Pharma/ Fauci fraud , big tech collusion with govt to censor . Epstien/Maxwell , Hunter and his laptop from Hell ,all these issue will come into the light for all to see. Truth always trumps propaganda. Good or light will prevail I hope, but if tyranny wins I will die on my feet before living on my knees!
Peace on Earth ....Goodwill towards mankind!

I checked it out, and yes the host cell does die once the virus is shed. Wikipedia gives a credible source for this information.

What is interesting about this natural immune response to the vaccines researched prior to this covid thingy, is that the leucocytes "remember" the necessary change in their configuration, and I don't know if that is a change in DNA or where this takes place; but anyway sometimes for years.

For example, I worked with TB patients at Fitzsimons Army Hospital (Aurora, Colorado) in the late '60's, being careful to wear gloves and masks, of course. Since then I never tested positive for TB when they used---maybe it was the scratch test, not sure---UNTIL about 1992 or 1993, after a new type of test had been developed. The doctor told me this test would test positive for the TB bacterium, if even only one bacterium had entered my body THIRTY YEARS BEFORE. I did not have TB, an X-ray established that. What I had was an antibody to the bacteria, meaning I had been exposed to the bacterium in a way that stimulated an immune response. I think that is very interesting. How does the immune system "remember"? What is going on, EXACTLY?

I'm saying the host CELL dies after the new viruses leave the cell. These dead cells of the host body no longer participate in the life of the host. If you have other information, let me know where to find it.

It is called "shedding of the virus". This is what occurs in Ebola, when the host begins to exsanguinate, and in smallpox, when the pox forms on the skin. Different viruses shed differently. I suppose in flues and colds the host sheds the virus through the lungs and its fluids.

Most invasive DNA, of course, does not survive, but that which does causes mutation.

Yes.

You are referring to the immune response? Then yes, of course.

Yes, I've heard that. Of course, that was back before life became more fully organized and complex. I don't think much of that is going on right now.
But I meant the cells invaded by the virus DNA or RNA fail to survive, once the virus leaves the cell, as far as I know.

As exemplified most by Tiktok.

The natural selection process that you refer to is at least partly virus-induced.

In my case, jbrenner, despondency is not what I feel. The deepening anarchy and deception in the outside world is not something I can change, but I can prepare my mind and surroundings to withstand the coming pressure to give up, give in, go woke. I have too many books to read, conversations to have, hugs for my kids and grandkids, paintings to create, writing to do for any thought of giving up. Going Galt is not giving up. It is giving myself a long rest from running on a treadmill to nowhere. Ayn Rand believed in life with purpose, forward motion. So do I. My life is too precious to waste on stupidity, which is what the world has embraced with absolutely no thought as to what comes after. I used to enjoy all kinds of discussions with all kinds of people, but now I open up only in the Gulch. I frequently think of a quote from Atlas Shrugged. To paraphrase, "not one single brain left."

By a leucocytic "natural selection", I am referring to a natural response to an exposure to a similar antigen or viral candidate, as it relates to a "target" virus or antigen.

Smallpox was a virus similar to cowpox, an immunity to the cowpox virus stimulated a similar immunity to the smallpox virus. In fact, using the dried, decomposed material from the pustules of a person with smallpox also brought about a "natural selection", inducing an immunity to an active smallpox virus.

(I worked for an immunologist years ago. In the same laboratory as her husband, a pharmacologist.)

As I said, I will need to review the mechanism of immunity, as it relates to a change in the DNA structure of leucocytes, if any. Seems I knew something about that, years ago.
Which brings me to something else. The immune process involved in the historic vaccines---smallpox, polio, etc., are a sort of "natural selection" on the part of the leucocytic mechanisms. The DNA engineering, like GMO, is a human manufactured CHANGE in genetic structure, more of an "artificial selection", like breeding animals.

In Vet school we found out that a consistent attempt at an artificial selection of cattle for a meatier, more compact animal resulted in dwarfism of the cattle. And here they weren't using a manufactured biochemical change in DNA, but only a selection based on phenotype in the young. DNA engineering through biochemical means must be more carefully studied before its widespread use in humans. And maybe even in GMO applications.

Not all such DNA remains, but there is a lot of evidence suggesting that a surprising amount of DNA mutation has viral origins.

I know how viruses replicate; that is not my concern. The cells of the body invaded by viruses and whose DNA, and RNA, are involved in replicating the RNA or DNA of the virus do not, as far as I know, remain a living part of the host body.

Actually, there has been very little public dissemination of new knowledge on the immune system. That being said, the key development in this area is a partial understanding of the importance of eosinophils. Eosinophils act as the reset button toward a steady state. That is largely not understood, but AstraZeneca totally got it, or else I would have gone forward with a patent application a couple of years ago. AstraZeneca bundled its increased understanding of eosinophils' role into Fasenra.

How does the virus replicate? By co-opting the working cell's own reproductive capability. Viral diseases do inject such sequences, but not all disease is viral. On that point, I stand corrected.

I had to think about what you said. Vaccines used previous to these covid things, affected the cells of the immune system, which is a completely different situation. But I need to review the cells of the immune system, the phagocytes and white blood cells, as my memory is short, and information (hopefully) has increased.

And this is something that is not well known yet.

I think you are wrong. In fact I'm pretty sure you are wrong. "All diseases and vaccines inject genetic sequences into a cell's nucleus", is not correct. Because if it were correct, any (body cell) progeny of the gene-corrected cell, and perhaps even the haploid cells, would carry the changed genetic structure. And this is simply not the case.

When I was at Colorado State University in the early '60's I had a job as a lab tech for a researcher who thought he could prove experimentally that something eaten by planaria could be passed on to its progeny. This is crazy. He went even further, and attempted to "teach" the worm how to get through a maze and thought he could prove that, too, would be passed on genetically.

These are impossibilities, and put the whole science of evolution at risk of discreditation.

My company is based off of a disinfection technology can treat MRSA and C. difficile in addition to all other viruses and microorganisms. What I have figured out partially is how to measure the immunological response of the body to several "foreign" inputs. I have to sell enough of my disinfection products to fund the research and development to properly control how to manufacture replacement organs because I refuse to be Dr. Stadler.

One challenge of going the National Institutes of Health route, even if I didn't have the philosophical and financial unwillingness to be a Stadler, is that Dr. Fauci disagrees with my intellectual approach and controls the NIH Allergy and Asthma institute that could fund such work. Thus, even if I weren't philosophically opposed, I wouldn't get funding anyway.

All diseases and vaccines inject genetic sequences into a cell's nucleus. Thus, they are by definition, potential carcinogens, teratogens, and mutagens. When one gets a vaccine, it is like getting one of the old Windows updates to "patch" a vulnerability. As the local nanotech guru, I teach students how to evade (cloak) and/or defeat the immune system to deliver chemotherapy and radiation therapy "smart bombs" directly to their targets. If I wanted to do so, I could modify a few arginine (one of the amino acids) sites to increase "infection". This is how one would do "gain of function" research, which Fauci and his colleagues have been successful in continuing despite objections.

Fauci is the real life Floyd Ferris. Francis Collins is someone I met once while I was a grad student at Michigan and he had just invented DNA sequencing. Dr. Collins is, while honorable for his achievements, he became Dr. Stadler.

Tissue engineering: related to covid vaccines? I understand the covid "vaccine" targets actual genetic DNA coding in the chromosomes. If that's the case, then it is possible that somewhere else on that chromosome some other biochemical reaction can be taking place, unbeknownst to researchers. Similar to when a programmer attempts to fix a glitch in his program, and something somewhere else goes wrong. It happened to me once in a while, when I took programming courses.
Do you know how many biochemical reactions take place in any one cell at any one time?

I'm not that young anymore. I turn 55 in January.

I used a program called Polymath today to simulate a differential equations part of a reactor engineering exam I wrote for next month today.

Tissue (organ) engineering really is just science at this point. It will become engineering when I and others can control it. You probably would like to have a replacement organ when one of yours wears out.

I didn't answer your question about "alliances", because I didn't propose any alliances. I did say that life presents challenges because you can't be an expert in everything (although my colleagues say that I come as close as anyone they know). You can verify for yourself what you have time to verify.

Americans have often assumed (perhaps erroneously) that people who report findings are telling the truth. That is a premise that needs challenging. When The New York Times refers to "all the news that is fit to print", very few people realize that this really means "all the information we will let you hear". I have watched peer reviewed articles with many citations just disappear from the Internet because they tell a story that disagrees with the "narrrative".

An alliance is only worthwhile if it creates value to all parties within the alliance.

You're a youngster, jbrenner.
But I'm a proponent of a K-14 length of study. Not that that will help some people, but it might help others.

I'm not an expert in everything, but I am a polymath. (When they told me that, I had to look the word up.) Anyway, when I come across something I don't know but need to know, I'll research it. I started out in the medical field, myself.
I've never heard of tissue engineering, but the engineering part---and here I'm assuming it is a human manufactured activity---puts me off. Can you give me a purpose for it?

You didn't answer the question: what are these "alliances" supposed to be doing?