Pandemics should open our eyes

Pandemics should open our eyes

The illusion is gone, when we are facing a COVID-19-type threat, and do you know, what makes this thing like black comedy, is that we should have predicted for that thing. H1N1 and SARS have shown that epidemics are more common than we have thought, and even in that case, we have not prepared, that there are more viruses, what is just waiting for the opportunity to cause infections and epidemics, and the thing is that if people don't know about this kind of things like pandemics, that doesn't make life easier.

This kind of threat is something, that we are not prepared, nothing, what we can control and nothing that we can ever see. We cannot remove this virus from our society by ordering it to leave, and the most important thing we cannot solve this problem by calling nice-looking uniforms wearing men in the office and say, that everything is under control. Normal people can do things like washing their hands, and that's it.

This is the best way to act in this kind of situation. When we are looking at writings in media, what is, of course, full of tales about this virus, the thing that we can see is despair. People are sitting in their homes and then there is nothing else to write like how many people are dying in the epidemics.

One of the most important things to do is to try to think something else than epidemics. We should not always fill our heads with stories about how many people will die and how many have died. But there is so much happened during epidemics. So positive thinking makes life easier behind the walls of epidemics.

When we are thinking about people, who are fighting against epidemics, their job happens mostly somewhere, where we are not allowed to visit. Medical doctors and nursery staff are key elements for taking care of infected people. But how we can even notice, if we have something new epidemics in our land?

The problem is that every virus is causing similar symptoms at the beginning of epidemics. And who would go to the doctor on the first day of the flu? The second question is would those medical doctors send the sample of the special laboratories, what can search the genetic material of the virus, and make the analysis, what would uncover if there is a new virus.

Mostly we are just thinking that viruses that we get are some kind of normal flu. And this is the thing, what even the highest trained immunologists and epidemiologists are doing. They would not send their blood tests to the BL-4 laboratory after they have sneezed, and this is the standard thing, what every normal person is doing.

Normal people are not reading material, which is created by some authorities like CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)(1), and normal people don't even know what is CDC? That authority is one of the most powerful and influential authority on this planet, and the work that these kinds of authorities are doing makes them very hard to control.

The analysis of genetic data of viruses needs very highly trained personnel and the thing that we must realize is that the particles, what those people are handling are so small, and effective analysis of the virus particles requires highly advanced tools and personnel, who own high moral and ethics what is combined with highly trained personnel, who have skills to translate and analyze the genetic data of viruses.

When we are thinking about pandemics, we must realize that there are billions and billions of viruses on the Earth. On the Earth is no laboratory, what can search the entire genetic material, what is in those viruses. So there is always some kind of pandemics going on, and most of those pandemics are harmless. Or how many times we would wake up in the night, and feel that we have like sand in our throat? That kind of thing is also an infection, what is caused by some virus. And in the morning we hardly remember those things, what happened in the night.

That kind of thing is mostly harmless, but for AIDS and organ transplant patients this kind of virus could be lethal. This is one way to see things. If our immune system doesn't work right or doesn't react things like fungus are dangerous. The infection can forward in eyes, and the fungus would terminate tissues largely, and if the surgery team would not have time to cut off tissues from enough large areas, that would cause death in hours.

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