防彈大叔觀點 Remarks by Coach Denys:
This is another evidence that supports the viewpoint that people with metabolic diseases (including type II diabetes and obesity, caused mainly by today’s mainstream unhealthy diet loaded with sugar and carbs) are way more vulnerable to coronavirus. This one seems harder for the naysayers to dismiss.
四天前最新的一篇報導更具體地指出為什麼高糖高碳水化合物飲食最容易造成的新陳代謝疾病 (如第二型糖尿病患者及肥胖者) 在受冠狀病毒感染後特別容易發病。對不相信這種理論的人來說，要忽視這篇報告的難度高了一點。
This is not about discrimination against fat and sick people. This is about acknowledging a wakeup call from the Universe to the human race on how we have been abusing our health with unhealthy diet in recent decades. It’s been a case against sugar.
請勿把這樣的觀點當成是對糖尿病患者及肥胖者的歧視。我比較認為這是上天對近幾十年來執迷於不健康飲食摧殘自己身體的人類所給的當頭棒喝！近幾年來人類飲食中最大的原罪之一就是糖和高澱粉。
Here are highlights of the article 中文摘譯如下：
The coronavirus is covered in a sugary exterior which makes it hard for the body to fight against it.
冠狀病毒其實被一層含糖的外層覆蓋，這使身體(的免疫系統)很難抵抗它。
“It’s really those spike proteins that are really the main infection machinery of the virus,” said UC San Diego computational chemist Rommie Amaro. “And these are the bits of the virus that get really heavily coated with this sugary coating so that our immune system can’t detect it in the body.”
加州大學聖地亞哥分校的「計算機理論化學家」阿瑪羅說：“實際上，那些刺突蛋白才是冠狀病毒的主要感染機制。但這些糖的塗層使病毒的某些部位大量地被覆蓋包著，乃至我們的免疫系統無法在體內檢測到冠狀病毒。”
Many cells in our body also have sugar coatings. Viruses like coronavirus have adapted to be covered in sugar to blend in, Amaro said. The body has a hard time detecting the virus, covered in this shield, so it can survive and be more infectious.
我們體內的許多細胞也有糖衣。 阿瑪羅說，像冠狀病毒這樣的病毒已經演化到知道去用糖衣覆蓋來達到魚目混珠的目的。 人體免疫系統很難檢測到被這種防護罩覆蓋的病毒，因此這些病毒可以生存並且更具感染力。
“The human body thinks it’s sort of similar to what should be in the body and then doesn’t attack it,” she said.
她說：“人體免疫系統認為它與體內其他組織相似(都有一層糖衣包著)，因此不會攻擊它。”
“There are some holes in the shield,” she said. “And these are some so-called vulnerabilities and this is why it’s important to identify where those open areas in the shield are. It gives us a better chance to design neutralizing antibodies.”
她說：“這層防護罩上有一些孔，這些就是所謂的漏洞，所以要確定防護罩中哪些位置有這樣的漏洞很重要，可以幫助我們有機會設計出中和抗體。”
More information can be found on this 2020/06/18 report by UCSD. 想進一步了解的人可以閱讀這篇加州大學聖地牙哥分校6月18號的報告。
