Thread:The Weary TimeLord/@comment-38531539-20200125130631/@comment-37028137-20200204225151

Hmm that is certainly not where I thought this was going but alright.

We will start with the basics, modern vaccines are developed in labratories. Scientists will take an inert and weakened starin of a virus or bacterium, one that can not replicate, and reverse engineer the strain to be weaker than its predecessor.

After this a number of tests are performed on the weaker concoction. The agent (being either a virus or bacterium) is bound and suspended inside a solution (usually liquid to better infuse with blood) If the tests are pasted then trails to test the efficacy of the solution will commence.

If the solution produces the results the scientists want (a vaccine, cure, or drug) than it is usually mass produced to stop the spread of the virus.

In the case of a magic resistant strain of bacterium new magic would rise to meet the onslaught as is done with vaccination. (When a virus adapts to a current vaccine we create a newer far more powerful one to destroy the virus.) I believe it would be the same for a magic resistant virus if one type of magic ceased to work in eradicating the virus then new forms would be created.

This may mean that the Order and the chief god would be forced to ally themselves with Lilith and the Demon Army. No doubt the Medical Sabbath and the M.A.M.CO (if it were my Universe) would be hard at work to develop a working vaccine to eliminate the virus.

Now to jump to reality for a moment the Wuhan Coronavirus is simply a mutation of an already existing viral agent. The first recorded Coronavirus was observed in the nineteen sixties. The newest variant is simply the virus changing and adapting to become more efficient, that is what viruses do.

My advice is wash your hands regularly. (After every meal, touching food, and all that, stay away from sick folks or people you think might be sick, and generally just behave as you would during 'Flu Season'.)

Cheers,

The Weary TimeLord.