{"id":2247,"date":"2020-03-26T22:53:26","date_gmt":"2020-03-26T20:53:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.danieleng.com\/?p=2247"},"modified":"2020-04-12T23:51:09","modified_gmt":"2020-04-12T21:51:09","slug":"2247","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danieleng.com\/?p=2247","title":{"rendered":"The Unavoidable Subject"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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I’d rather post a picture of a cute animal, like a leaping fox, than of a virus; a tiny piece of DNA or RNA that science dispute whether it is a life form or not. Nevertheless: Here is a stylized picture of the Corona virus that currently infects people<\/a> all over the world at a stunning rate, causing a crackdown on social events and gatherings.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

It’s strange to think that viruses seem to be an inevitable product of how life on earth functions, and that viruses have had a profound part in the development of life on Earth, when they also can be the worst disease-inducing menace one can imagine. Some of the worst diseases imaginable are induced by viruses – like Ebola<\/a>, Marburg Disease<\/a> and Rabies<\/a> – while our own cells long, long ago may have assimilated some ancient viruses that made it possible for our cells in the form of Mitochondrions<\/a> to produce energy for our organisms (as far as I know some say that it might have been assimilated bacteria instead, and some argue it might have been viruses).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the end, it seems as it is viruses that have come wrong that make us humans sick; that we have accidentally come into contact with a piece of genetic material where either we, or it should not be. This is what counts now: that we all are in the right places. Whether it be in quarantine because you avoid being infected, or for the risk of infecting someone; whether you are in need of hospital care, or at a job that is vital to society or at home being sick – I hope that you all are, or soon will be, at the right place for you, where care, healing and safety is for you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stay safe everybody, and I wish all of you visiting here all the best in this time of world wide peril.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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