Comments on: The 100-yr-old BCG vaccine for TB is being tested against the novel coronavirus https://www.isegoria.net/2020/04/the-100-yr-old-bcg-vaccine-for-tb-is-being-tested-against-the-novel-coronavirus/ From the ancient Greek for equality in freedom of speech; an eclectic mix of thoughts, large and small Thu, 14 May 2026 06:12:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 By: CVLR https://www.isegoria.net/2020/04/the-100-yr-old-bcg-vaccine-for-tb-is-being-tested-against-the-novel-coronavirus/comment-page-1/#comment-3108943 CVLR Mon, 06 Apr 2020 20:17:09 +0000 https://www.isegoria.net/?p=46517#comment-3108943 Peter: “Bat cheese mongers have been totally immune to the virus.”

What?

]]> By: Peter Whitaker https://www.isegoria.net/2020/04/the-100-yr-old-bcg-vaccine-for-tb-is-being-tested-against-the-novel-coronavirus/comment-page-1/#comment-3108906 Peter Whitaker Mon, 06 Apr 2020 19:06:21 +0000 https://www.isegoria.net/?p=46517#comment-3108906 Bat cheese mongers have been totally immune to the virus.

]]> By: Buckethead https://www.isegoria.net/2020/04/the-100-yr-old-bcg-vaccine-for-tb-is-being-tested-against-the-novel-coronavirus/comment-page-1/#comment-3108654 Buckethead Mon, 06 Apr 2020 13:59:25 +0000 https://www.isegoria.net/?p=46517#comment-3108654 I remember reading Heart of the Comet by Greg Benford and David Brin, which centered on a manned mission to Halley’s comet in 2061. There was a lot of nice speculation as you’d expect. But one thing that stuck in my mind ever since was that one of the physician’s primary duties was releasing tailored viruses and diseases into the population in order to keep everyone healthy and their immunes systems in prime working order.

It was the first time that I’d ever heard anything like that, and over the years I’ve seen a lot of reports/studies that point to it being essentially correct.

]]> By: Sam J. https://www.isegoria.net/2020/04/the-100-yr-old-bcg-vaccine-for-tb-is-being-tested-against-the-novel-coronavirus/comment-page-1/#comment-3108625 Sam J. Mon, 06 Apr 2020 13:16:32 +0000 https://www.isegoria.net/?p=46517#comment-3108625 Off topic but I belive people here might be interested in this. I was reading ” Red Plenty: Inside the Fifties’ Soviet Dream”
by Francis Spufford, which I liked, and it had some other books mentioned in it. One was

Pioneers of Soviet Computing

https://www.glaver.org/blog/Pioneers_of_Soviet_Computing.pdf

which is also interesting if you like the books looking at technical history.

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