it should not for the same reason we don't blame the bullet when someone gets shot, or the train for driving over the suicidal person. That's the difference between a proximate and a root cause.
No. They are trying to use a vaccine to solve the problem and this is wrong because the virus is not the root cause of harm. Even if they did manage somehow to prevent the virus from getting in, which the vaccine will fail at, it wouldn’t matter because this same kind of immune dysfunction is at the center of a million other diseases. A treatment that controls the immune system wipes them all out in one stroke. But people are stuck on yesterdays thinking
It’s not so wild. Inflammation is very ancient and it does a lot more than make a paper cut turn red. It pulls lots of fundamental levers, metabolic levers. Inflammatory signals are one of the great frontiers of medicine. We have barely scraped the surface of it.
