SO ENDS this first weekend on viruses. These enigmatic and talented creatures have been maligned by biologists who either have only focused on their disease roles, or who have stubbornly refused to drop a Victorian mindset that assumed that they are not alive. Alive they are, in an extreme version of outsourcing. And causing diseases is a minor part of the full spectrum of these creatures. Undoing these two biases is underway but may take decades more to sink into the general consciousness.
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Nigel Fleming
September 21, 2022