... 1850s, it was Louis Pastueur who observed the phenomena, a bacteria, exploded by a fungus. Fast forward 175 years: ... a virus, snuffed by a narcotic? Get a load of this: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-29118-6 Simple environmental reasoning, a narcotic, cigarette nicotine does three things, (1) it transitions the blood-brain barrier, (2) it saturates the bloodstream, (3) it saturates the lungs. Makes perfect sense a gain of function virus would have a difficult time of it, dropping its payload, seating itself in so hostile an environment of a contemporary chain smoker. In a blink of geologic time, just 80 years later Alexander Flemming revisited Pastueur's work; engineers got the cantaloupe into the vats, distilling penicillin for the war effort. This revelation, virus snuffed by a narcotic, it could happen a whole lot faster. Samuel, '04 Ruthiemobile
Wow, a lot of concepts and a lot of words not all aimed at. I scarcely know where to begin! First, thanks for linking this publication. Your summary has "saturates" and "gain of function", neither are in publication. So I will make a different summary. No evidence is presented that smoking (inhaled tobacco) changes risk of COVID-19 infection. Evidence is presented that prior nicotine exposure reduced neuropathology in mice. COVID-19 neuropathology in humans is part of what is called 'long COVID'. == This study is most interesting to me for introducing nicotine as among bio molecules that help mammalian brains when bad viruses arrive. I hope that more follow on this. == Penicillin derived from fungi kills susceptible bacteria. Hugely important AND unrelated to viruses. == What a jumble you offer.
This morning found me at a service where a "Prayer for Illumination" was offered. But as I wasn't looking in the order of service at the time, and had recently been visiting someone recovering from low pelvic surgery, I may have heard it as "prayer for elimination".
