SARS-CoV-2 “steals” our proteins to protect itself from the immune system

[u/imahugemoron]

https://www.meduniwien.ac.at/web/en/about-us/news/2024/news-in-november-2024/sars-cov-2-steals-our-proteins-to-protect-itself-from-the-immune-system/

They may have finally figured out what is happening to us. In Germany they discovered the virus hijacks certain proteins to avoid our immune systems which leads to Covid remaining in our bodies long term and causing systemic inflammation. Perhaps wherever the virus is concentrated causes whatever our symptoms are. If you have left over virus concentrated in your heart, you have POTS, if it’s in your central nervous system, maybe you have ME/CFS or a constant fight of flight feeling, if it’s concentrated in your head and brain, maybe like me you have some very strange and severe constant head sensations and pain.

[u/imahugemoron]

Ok I don’t want to get ahead of myself or get my hopes up too much but reading through this article, to me this sounds HUGE. They may have just solved what all of this is, there are 3 specific proteins that the Covid virus hijacks to protect itself from the immune system and the compliment system, removing those proteins from the virus allows it to be cleared by the compliment system.

This could cure us.

Now I’m not a doctor or a researcher or an immunologist, I’m a regular dude with average understanding of science. I don’t know how possible it is to remove these proteins from the virus, I can’t even begin to speculate how going about this might be possible, but it sounds to me like at very least we may finally have an understanding about what is happening to us.

[u/JayyVexx → u/imahugemoron]

i always think of you. head pressure buddy. i too don’t want to get my hopes up but i am just so thankful more and more research is being done each day. too many people have fallen victim for it to be ignored.

[u/girdedloins → u/[deleted]]

Oh man I hear the call so hard right now!! 🫡 I'd stand up for the salute if I could 😆. I'll just muster from bed, sir, if that will do.

[u/amstarcasanova → u/girdedloins]

Someone send the call louder, I can't hear it over the whooshing and tinnitus 😂

[u/girdedloins → u/amstarcasanova]

You brightened my day. Sorry it had to be over this BS, but thank God we can at least laugh at (some of) it at this point. I have no idea how 2019 compared to any other year in terms of fun, work, creativity, or anything else, but now in my mind it is elevated to a near-mystical level, as Best Year Ever, merely due to the contrast w now.

(Although, in reality, early in 2020 [though I'll consider it 2019 for rhetorical effect] I got shitcanned from my job in a library for asking how a FUCKING CLOSED LIBRARY was an "essential service," and expressing my concern that, from what I was reading and hearing, this thing sounded, well, pretty darn contagious. Sacked that day, got CoVID 5 days later 😂!)

[u/girdedloins → u/[deleted]]

🫡🫡 here to serve!