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To: Henry Niman who wrote (601)	6/25/2003 10:50:12 PM
From: Henry Niman	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1070

>>because their polymerase gene does have a proof reading function<< The post should read the polymerase doe NOT have a proof reading function (mine does work well either).

To: Henry Niman who wrote (601)	6/26/2003 8:14:57 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1070

Henry, I've been misinformed in that case. A month or two ago I saw photos of the various bugs and was surprised how big the sars bug was. The colds were little by comparison; little being about 1/10th the diameter = minuscule in volume and 1/100th the surface area. Maybe the photos were fakes. I suppose I should read something about how these bugs work rather than making it up myself using civil engineering and oil industry principles with telecommunications context. But using those principles for a moment, if colds and other corona viruses are so smart alecky and can mutate at the drop of a hat, how come we only get one cold a year instead of hundreds? They certainly have a monster breeding pool and compared with sars have all the time in the world and all the people in the world in which to mutate by the petatrillion. There's a logic link missing in there and when I notice logic links missing, it's usually for a good reason to do with the information being incomplete or plain wrong. One doesn't need to be expert in a field to notice inconsistencies. How come we only get one or two colds a year if they are so mutatable? Thanks for the detailed explanation of replication. Mqurice