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dmytryl's avatar

> If you had read Hanson's posts, you would know that he has a proposed protocol for quantitatively determining the optimal variolation dose.

I know he has this notion of masks soaking in the water and results getting frozen. All the enzymes and everything, mouth bacteria for a good measure... well at least he added my concern about what freezing does to solutions and suspensions.

Here's the thing, if you run it like this you get no good data nor a safe way to apply it, and if you do everything properly it's just another immunization approach. Apart from extra risks (and after the recipient has recovered from the illness) it's much like a vaccine but slower to test (simply because you have 5+ days added to everything for the incubation period). The immune system still works in very complicated ways if it's the whole virus. I'm smelling a naturalistic fallacy.

edit: I also really dislike the GI infection idea... here's the thing, it's hard to take this as anything other than Hanson acting in some variation of not so good faith. He literally cited a paper where a SARS-CoV-1 patient with GI symptoms had infected a large number of people in his high rise apartment building (20+ stories), and a high rise apartment buildings next door. Obvious implications on how this can actually be quite hazardous to bystanders and would require very serious biosafety measures (or require nonsense that ain't going to happen like remote islands).

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Pepper's avatar

Hanson is trying to find experts to collaborate with and get critiques from

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