>>13486973>picWhat a load of absoulte fucking bullshit and of all places i'm seeing this on /sci/
Anyone with an understaing of highschool biology can see how fucking wrong this is.
>comparing COVID to MalariaCOVID is caused by a virus (specifically coronavirus)
Malaria is caused by a protozoan (speicifically plasmodium malariae)
These two are very very different things!, protozoa are single-celled parasites, these are living cells that have a nucleus and can synthize their own proteins and divide. Viruses on the other hand are just sacs of RNA or DNA plus some extra proteins that rely on other cells to produce their proteins and replicate themselves because they lack the enzymes which are necessary for replication and protein synthesis. And unlike the malaria causing plasmodium, viruses also don't have the enzymes necessary to digest hemoglobin.
And as you know mature red blood cells do not have a nucleus, they also don't have ribosomes, in other words, mature red blood cells lack DNA, RNA and ribosome and alot of other enzymes necessary for replication and transcripion (obviously if you don't have DNA you won't have a DNA polymerase, duh), thus we can see that mature red blood cells can't synthesize new proteins, or divide.
Now what would happen if a virus injects its RNA into a mature red blood cell? it would do nothing! if it was a normal cell the viral RNA would be translated by ribosomes to make viral proteins, but mature red blood cells don't have ribosomes so the viral RNA will simply float in the cytoplasm doing absolutely nothing! This is why mature red blood cells can never get infected by any kind of a virus!
Again this is basic highschool biology, if you want a source just go and fucking read any biology textbook.
This is deliberate spread of misinformation, i don't need to read further than this to realize that.
