absolutely (or resolute indeed) almost not much is as curious and as interesting to observe as our quite apparent wish to both survive and die, look you see. just as we look to seek out all ways possible to prolong life, we encourage ways to commence its demise. it seems at present the most sensational ways sought to do this are all "c" words.
elimination first? surely. how about this rather smart coronavirus thing. nobody appears to be asking why some sort of "mega population killer" virus off of China has been named after a poor but generally widely (and cheaply) available Mexican beer. since i have no answer, i will not ask. the whole thing sounds rather dangerous and somewhat contagious, with the latter making the "variable" quarantine options for those diagnosed as curious as it is interesting.
how serious is this Mexican beer virus thing? it sounds like it is quite serious, moving possibly to very. but, we have been here before. in living memory all sorts of things - SARS, bird flu, the Bush-Bliar axis of evil, foot and mouth disease, Ed Sheridan (or whatever) - have come and gone with severe, serious warnings that we were all going to be dead by death soon. and yet here we still are.
by chance another c word might (might) well save us from the imminent death and destruction (well, maybe just the former). something called crispr (which you say "crisper", so hello, Faye) has been discovered, found or invented, and so them clever scientists or doctors (or whatever) can just fix the dead by death, i suppose.
what is this crispr, then? apparently it is a quasi acronym (the pronunciation is one, the spelling not so much) for Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats. no, me neither, but the bits i read before my head started to hurt as it was all so clever suggest that it some smart way of fixing faults, errors, defects and things like that in DNA.
it sounds marvellous, in truth, and can be used to fix all sorts of things. like, for instance, lungs, which probably get knacked by that coronavirus and certainly get knacked off of smoking. so these "crispr" practitioners can just apply a rudimentary fix and mend it all. unless it goes wrong (went f****d in medical lexicon), and then the fix might make what is knacked go uber-knacked and accelerate some damage. but, take a chance once in a while.
yes, we have heard all of this before, too. such revolutionary new scientific and medical discoveries were going to "eliminate major illnesses" before, but never did. all that "stem cell research" seems to have gone, and i have yet to find out what exactly all them boffins and science dude types ever worked out by making all them monkeys and mice smoke in laboratories for years and years. also, at school i was told by the year 2000 we would have smart machines and robots doing everything and we would all have a life of leisure. not so, that i am aware of.
make no mistake, i really do hope that this "crispr" one is the real deal, and not just more bullsh!t off scientists waving smoke and mirrors around to justify their research grants. going to a doctor, saying "hello there, my lungs are a little bit knacked as i may have smoked one or two cigarettes" and getting some smart "crispr" pills or injections or whatever would me most agreeable. should it go wrong and end up being one of them went f****d incidents, well, the damage was probably done anyway.
right, well, there you go. out of destruction rises construction, or construction requires destruction, or something similarly profound sounding to close off, then. life is likely to be same as it ever was despite all the promises of these "c" words, but you never know.
be excellent to each other!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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