At
this time in our collective lives on the planet, stressful though it
is, we need to put our thinking caps on. First of all the situation
with diseases is relatively simple, they have always plagued
humanity. And not just us either. If you think about how life has
evolved, how it appears today you will see very quickly that
literally everything depends on something or somebody else. To put it
bluntly, as food. Obviously that also means defence mechanisms have
evolved as well. If a body is attacked then if the defences are
strong the attacking entity will get rebuffed or killed. If the
defence is lacking or weak, the victim may succumb and may die. That
is the simple rule of life. I suppose it is scant satisfaction
knowing that you are food but thinking like that at least will make
you see the reality a bit clearer.
So,
what about this corona virus then – is it unusual? No, it is not.
Somewhere along the line of life we have picked up an organism that
usually lives on or from something else rather than humans. But as
there are now so many humans, nearly 8 billion and all living pretty
close together and on top of that travel all over the place, this
organism managed to jump to another source which has given it the
means for explosive procreation. At least one of us is happy.
One
of the problems we face is that the ‘enemy’ is rather minute, we
cannot see it. But we still need to understand how the ‘enemy’
behaves and we have to reduce its ability to wage ‘war’.
Furthermore
we also have to reduce our own weaknesses, develop the armoury,
reduce our rat-like propensity to use everything regardless of the
consequences. Unlike rats we do know about consequences. To stave of
future attacks from the virus or indeed any virus or bacterium we
have to reduce the attack front. That will not be easy, in fact very
very difficult. But we have a choice – do we want to live or die?
It is a war out there baby!
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