Unscientific Virology, or How to Stop Being Afraid and Start Living: A Look at Risk
'08.04.2020'
Suddenly it turned out that I was at risk. It's strange somehow. I've always been in a youth group. And here ... Out of habit, I thought about it and realized that we, people, from the day of birth to the last exhalation are at risk. The highest, by the way ...
Each has a billion bacteria, good and bad. They also fight among themselves, patiently waiting for their time to feast on us. Who else should they feast on?
From the very first minutes of a child's life, everything scares him: bright light, unusual noise, strange smells, attempts to save him, teach him, heal him, fear of losing his mother, a power source ... After nine months of relative calm, the unfriendly world takes him into its tenacious embrace. He will keep a person all his life, not letting go and threatening him at every step, at every turn. Diseases, mistakes of doctors, mistakes of parents, accidents, kidnappers of children, sale of organs to developed countries, murders, beatings, bullying, alcoholism and drug addiction first of the parents, and then sometimes of the children themselves. Mental problems, the desire for suicide, the struggle with oneself because of the inability to get along with reality and the rejection of people. Struggle for life, for a female, for a place in the sun, for living space, for a position, for a salary, for a bonus ... Suffering from not understanding why a freedom-loving creature should be driven into the framework of rules, traditions, laws - everything that he puts on of each chain, allowing any movement not exceeding the length of the chain ...
Enough or little and still need to list with dozens? Easy.
When we are born, we fall into the hands of those who build their well-being on our lives. Doctors, lawyers, manufacturers of baby food, strollers, cots, clothes, toys. And none of them (which is not strange) cares about the well-being of children, only about income in connection with children ... F then - in connection with adults. The sword of Damocles with many blades always weighs over us. Planes fall, cars catch fire and get into accidents, sometimes through the fault of the driver, sometimes not. The food comes across poisoned. And the water too. New troubles arise along the way. Fights, involuntary crimes, courts, prisons, getting into a system from which there is often no exit, there is only an entrance ...
So what am I talking about? It’s probably time to say, I think. Explain why I painted such a bleak picture of the world and life? Whom will it make happy?
I mean that this virus, sent to us by nature, so that we sit at home and rethink our existence, or a man created for something, perhaps, arrived with the goal of changing the balance of power in the world. But he shouldn't scare us too much. That's what I mean !!!
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Then, having departed from him by five years and looking back, we will understand what kind of virus it was. Better than some viruses, worse than others. Then, do not go to the fortuneteller, it turns out that he was before, but not so aggressive. He walked around the world about a hundred times and, constantly mutating, now degenerated into a kind of international muck. And here they also made a scapegoat, arranged a show trial, and ... lifting them to shields, they carried a sore all over the world. And along the way they showed us that:
- Most countries were not ready for such a turn of events, and that
- Governments respond to threats slowly, and that
- All the same, out of habit, they try to carve out a "piece of the pie" for themselves, despite the seriousness of the situation and the need to put aside all political strife, organizing proper care for all the sick, since it happened so. And these are precisely the "servants of the people."
But be that as it may, the dead will die, and the survivors will survive. Someone will overestimate their life. Most, I'm afraid, won't. Another one will be added to the list of dangers that lie in wait for a person while he is alive. And the world will roll on. After a year or two, drowning in everyday life, we will forget this episode, and the quarantine, and the need to stay at home as an attempt to slow down the spread of the virus.
Actually, it's a shame. We make self-steering cars, grow spare parts for bodies, fly to Mars, extract something from under the ocean floor, modify food, cross goats with cacti, launch thousands of satellites into orbit to keep an eye on each other - but we cannot catch a virus , and it is impossible to stop, and to cure when needed, we do not know how.
I think that it should be a shame both for those who throw billions to study, and for those who master them, these billions, too. And we pay for their inability to react quickly, as always. And there is no one else. We are always in the forefront of both defense and offensive. And experiments on us, and experiments - too. And they failed to save us - again ...
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Conclusions? Which, varnished or unapplied to you to submit?
I think that we will continue to live, realizing that today's world, in its essence, is unfriendly, and we will not expect warmth from it together with love (apart from global warming ...). From loved ones and relatives - we can, but from the world - there is no need. Although, we will probably live without this love, if only they would not slip viruses to us when they are not asked for. Or at least learned how to deal with them. Is it really that difficult to do?
