@TheStoicCrane Ok man, but I think if you remove all of the absolute retardation then it's not so bad. If you remove the intelligent but misguided initial flawed strategies then it becomes not bad at all. As an example of retardation, topping off people's vitamin D levels isn't pushed, yet alone just merely taking a pill. I'm pulling a number out of my ass, but basically if you aren't starving of vitamin D then you're survival rate will double or more. Stupid easy things like that goes on and on. Next up on reasonably stupid things to do was how they were hard blowing hair into lungs in the initial months. They were just straight up popping lungs since the tissue was fragile. They killed a whole lot of people that way until they reprogrammed the devices to be gentle.

My position is that there was a hell of a lot of reason to be concerned in the beginning and so it made sense to slow everything down to buy the scientists more time to figure it out. Maybe because I'm a techie and have had people waiting on me (when nobody else an do it) I see it that way. I also don't mean specifically to make a vaccine. I mean just figuring out what the fuck this virus is doing. People really didn't have much of an idea other than knowing vaguely that it was doing ACE-2 stuff. Then it was discovered (and canceled) there is an HIV-like exploit in this virus, plus antibody dependent enhancement as a second exploit, which is just scary.

So about ACE-2 proteins and receptors. It is highly correlated with removing nasty gunk in the body, in that if you have a lot of gunk in your blood like 2.5 sized pollution, etc then the pathway that ACE-2 plays a part of will be more heavily emphasized. At the end of the day, medicine is corrupted with the worst politics, people are malnutritioned, obese and polluted. Who knew that living in high pollution would have a generally negative effect on difficult to precisely predict aspects of your health?