Corona makes me feel that humanity has it all wrong

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If the fault is human criminal behavior finding blame and assigning punishment is matter of justice and preventing future outbreaks. It might deter others from starting viruses sans that prevent the particular criminal from creating more bio weapons. Knowledge might be gained of how the criminal did it and how the criminal got around preventative measures possibly preventing future bio attacks.

Finding "blame" for purely a natural phenomenon is a necessary step in taking preventative actions and finding a cure.

Age has some advantages. I am 71 and that means I have lived for a very long time and experienced many things within this life. I am not too concerned about the coronavirus because I have lived similar experiences with the SARS and MERS coronavirus epidemic. I have seen it all play out before so in a sense I already know how it will end.

We will see more infections, people will panic, not just panic buying but bordering on the level of true terror. It is like the brawls that occur on Black Friday sales (American tradition) right after Thanksgiving when all the stores post sales and people physically fight over them. Then the number of new infections will stabilize and people will give a sigh of relief and then the infection rate will begin to fall. Then six months later, no one will even remember this pandemic, except for a few historians.

Almost every day the sun rises in east in the morning and sets in the west during the evening. I suspect this may not always be the case but within my lifetime there is a high probability it shall be so.

^ Yes, I’ve compared it with the Spanish Flu in another thread.
Read enough history to know that there will be panic, deaths and sorrow: but human civilisation will continue, and memory of all this will dwindle to an example of administrative practices & medical knowledge of the early C21st in scholarly publications and the odd half-understood reference in some of whichever novels of our time become classics of the future.

We should not be comparing Covid-19 with the Spanish Flu. Totally different animals. Totally different times

Try telling that to the families who lost a loved one to it, though.

It’s just one of many viruses which, perhaps, mutates from another virus. Its severity might be caused by its “novelty.”

I don’t feel there was some nefarious plot undertaken by the Chinese government, or by some other entity.

They would have foreseen that the hassle wouldn’t have been worth it, I feel.

We have to take action first, in conjunction with investigations as to its origins.

Cube, what is nano-tech?

I think that with some faith and anulling our egos a little to start with, we can build bridges and learn to respect and accept those who have opposing views and beliefs. I believe nature is an intelligence, and there is cause and effect, everything we do affects the whole of nature, it is an integral, complex system. Our disharmony, our conflicts, our greed ( not Fnord) is causing natural disasters. According to the wisdom of kabbalah this is so, and the antidote is unity, tolerance, above all differences of creed, religion or beliefs. Nooooo I can't prove it, but I believe it.

Have I understood correctly that it is all about mutation? Doesn't sound like a good idea to me.

You may read and understand google and Wikipedia scientific stuff but I haven't a clue. I need a simple explanation.

^ basically it’s doing stuff with things so small they’re invisible without a microscope.
(That’s not 100% accurate, but it’s the gist)
Quantum weirdness occurs at this level: which is probably why there are no commercially available nanotech devices for the domestic consumer.

It crops up in sci-fi now and then: often as a ”sciency” alternative to magic in fantasy.

If/when anything does come if it it’ll probably be used to solve some problems, whilst creating others at the same time.

Nanotech devices are machines that can only be seen under a microscope. Theoretically, they would be about the size of a blood cell, and would perform simple functions like chopping up cancer cells or releasing medicines at specific sites. Science-Fiction and Fantasy stories go so far as to say that nanotech can be used to reduce organic matter to a "gray goo" that could then be used to construct an entirely new creature. In Star Trek, for example, the Borg used "nanites" to take over and reconstruct humanoid species into mindless drones whose only purpose was to assimilate even more humanoid species into the Borg collective. Resistance was futile.

Thank you. Don't like the sound of it at all. Cube seems to think it's a good thing. I know it's not the same, but I remember the day they cloned "Dolly" the sheep and I said to myself "oh oh, that's not a good thing."

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