User talk:Shawty71

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Re: Sorry
Don't worry about it. Sometimes it can get a little messy if there are a bunch of edits on the same page in a short span of time. =) Nightmirage 06:51, June 4, 2010 (UTC)

Boy, what the hell are you talking about!?!
Your Notes on the Carrier Page are rather confusing. You may have a Scientist's mind, but other people who read about "H1N1" may be like "What? What the hell was this guy drinking!?!". You should consider dumbing it down a shade so people understand it more easily. It's intelligent input, yes, but don't make it too sophisticated.  94.195.236.134  20:55, June 25, 2010 (UTC)

X in my Y? It's more likely than you think
I've no intention of bringing back that painful 'Carrier vs Immunity' article section, but I'd like to make a point about the doctor's ambiguous statement ("it runs on the father's side"). Valve aren't doctors, so what I think they did is went off the example of color blindness, which is X-linked and often described as running with the men in the family, since males with the allele always have it in their phenotype (but you probably know this already). Furthermore, if you take Zoey's family and calculate their genotypes under the presumption that the gene is X-linked, you'll find that Wade was immune (or a carrier, whatever you want to call it; he wasn't going to turn), which is a major tragic point and the reason Zoey has that flashback and breaks down. She had shot her father for nothing.

So I think we shouldn't take that one quote too literally and just go with the idea that it's X-linked.

One other thing: The carrier vs immunity section presumed that "immune" means adaptive immunity when it actually probably denotes innate immunity, i.e. passive and genetic. Again, Valve aren't doctors, but I think they understand that you can't have a 'naturally fast and strong' immune reaction against a virus that mutates daily. Monojin 16:50, October 4, 2010 (UTC)