why don’t we just have good medication against viruses? Why is it that we have so many different antibiotics that protect us from most types of bacteria, from the plague to urinary tract infections to blood poisoning, but nothing really great against the flu, the common cold, or the coronavirus? Well, here we encounter a fundamental problem: viruses are too similar to our own cells. Wait. What? Well, they are not similar in the sense that a virus is similar to a cell, but in the sense that viruses mimic or work with your own parts.
