This article is reproduced from WeChat public account ” New Weekly “(ID: new-weekly) , OF: He Xipa, the subject from the Orient FIG IC.
If there is an advanced alien life coming and writing an encyclopedia for the creatures of the earth, all the books in the entire room will be written with invisible microorganisms. In the thin pages that belong to animals, humans will only occupy a prominent footnote.
Humans only care about things that can be seen. This narrow perspective makes it difficult for us to realize:
The invisible virus is the protagonist of the earth.
It is these indescribably small living organisms that have the greatest biomass and diversity at their mercy. The potential epidemic they may cause is also the greatest threat to humanity.
The epidemic, Pandemic, is derived from the Greek words Pan and Demo, meaning “all” and “people”. It can be said that the highest state of the virus is too straightforward: it infects everyone.
Right now, “the epidemic of today” is gone. The era of long-term coexistence of human beings and epidemics is coming as the invisible enemy army is under pressure.
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