Can the "war" of the "war" with the virus be known to themselves?

Author: Chongmu Young Writer

In the "Invisible Enemies: Natural History of Viruses" by the famous British virusologist Doros Claumford, the author pointed out based on his research experience that "average influenza is popular every 10 to 40 years. Last time, the last time. It happened in 1968, so we will usher in the next time. " Therefore, in this science popularization work written in 2000, Crowford asked, "Will there be a big popularity in 2010?" And we know that with the beginning of the 21st century in the 21st century After another ten years, the new crown virus has been raging in countries around the world ... Human beings once again have to face this naked eye "invisible enemy" from nature.

Human beings are constantly overwhelming, and they lose their vigilance

Looking at the plague or other viruses of various countries in modern history, we will find some inevitability in many accidents, especially when people see the epidemic in the future, we will find that it is exactly the fastness of human society to a large extent. Development has led to the frequent frequent epidemic. In the conclusion part of "Invisible Enemies", Crowford has realized that the 21st century we may face more and more strange viruses, which leads to the cause of this situation and the development, utilization and utilization of the natural environment of the human society. Destruction has a direct contact. Or fundamentally, "Everywhere we live, we will disturb its natural ecosystem and bring long -term chain reactions to the surrounding plants, animals and microorganisms." Une balanced, the result is often a new human disease. "

It is precisely this point that makes humans feel helpless, and it is often difficult to really prevent early prevention when facing possible new rounds of epidemic and disease, because the fundamental status is that the existence of the virus in nature is almost as long as humans. Even from the beginning of the origin of creatures, it was present. The so -called "natural history of the virus" is to remind us that the virus is not a thorough foreign thing, and it is an integral part of the natural environment that we live in from beginning to end, and often take the role of "regulator". The arrogance of "people is the scale of all things" has gradually forgotten this fact with the development of science and technology and civilization, and eventually enters the virus into human society in the ambition of "controlling nature", which will cause new diseases.

Therefore, there are always two viruses popular: once the virus invades the human body, destroying the body's defense system, let us get sick or even directly set us to death; the other time is metaphorical, which attacks social body, civilization, and we and we and our own and for ourselves. The understanding and cognitive method of the natural world. From this, there will be a series of metaphorical culture and significance established around the virus. It is like a mirror that is disturbing, according to human cross -border, and to a large extent reminding the power of human beings. Especially with the scientific and specialization of scientific and specialized in the 19th century -we can fully understand and control nature -let human beings continue to be overwhelming and lose their vigilance.

What is the metaphor of the virus

The Minister of Health of the United States proudly announced in 1969: "We can now end the research on infectious diseases", but the reality is just the opposite. In the popular life. The new virus emerges around the world in a dazzling way, and our proud science often appears in front of many viruses.

Perhaps this reality has subverted the pictures of people's common human society that people are accustomed to the world and the human society they exist, and gradually recognized this reality -we are only a part of the creatures living in nature from beginning to end, and most of the other other can be able to live in nature, and most of the other other can be able to live in nature, and most of the other other can be able to live in nature, and most of the other other can be able to live in nature, and most of the other other can be able to live in nature, and most of the other other can be able to live in nature, and most of the other other can be able to live in nature, and most of the other other can be able to live in nature, and most of the other other can be able to live in nature, and most of the other can be able to live in nature. Visible and more invisible things coexist.

When Klauford introduced the differences between viruses, bacteria, and microorganisms, he pointed out the special features of the virus and various metaphorical imaginations and anxiety caused by this characteristic. Virus is different from bacteria that can be self -sufficient microorganisms. It "can only be done by yourself ... Just some virus particles, no energy source, and no cell mechanism required for synthetic protein." The virus must invade other live cells and control it. Bacteria and humans can maintain coexistence, while the "parasitic" of the virus invades creatures, occupying cells, thereby causing lesions to the human body or even directly killing the host.

This is the biological war between the virus and the human body. There is no essential difference between the relationship between the virus and the other animals, and the difference may be that the boundary breakthroughs, that is, those animals and plants or insects that are naturally stored as viruses may be possible It does not cause lesions of a virus, but once the human body breaks into this closed circular chain and infects these strange viruses, our human body immunity is often difficult to identify and eliminate it for a while, causing lesions. This is a battle of nature and creatures, but in human society, such "war" often cause huge damage.

In the future, there is an enemy or a friend

It is for this reason that when humans face the viruses again and again, different coping methods will be produced, and it will affect the corresponding cultural and social forms directly. In James Scott's "Cocoon Self -Resting: Deep History of Human Early State" Chapter 3 "A total of people and animals:" Storm and Rain "of epidemic diseases, the American anthropologist discovered that epidemic diseases have cognition of human cognition for human cognition. The influence of nature, self, social, cultural and political forms. Although Crowford has not mentioned the impact of the virus on the system and culture of the human social organization, the impact on social concepts in the history of viruses seen, researching and analyzing according to science Essence就如爱泼斯坦爵士在其序言中所说的，“如果科学进步的技术成果不是越来越多地影响社会的运作方式，更重要的是影响构成社会的个人的生活方式的话，那么，这Maybe it doesn't matter. " Human understanding of the virus itself is accompanied by the development of science and its technology, and the two are almost a symbiotic relationship. But even so, in the face of the emergence of new viruses (such as neo -crown viruses) and the rolling of the old virus (such as the cholera virus (such as the cholera), we seem to have no other ways except science and medical technology. Can truly resolve this crisis. At the same time, we can still be aware of the scientific limitations of science when facing infinite nature and no different viruses. Therefore, how to minimize our lives under the guidance of science, and Become a new problem.

Crowford also raised a question: Is the future, the enemy or friend? He discussed the three viruses that might threaten humans in the future: ancient viruses, young viruses and neonatal viruses. Both the first two will be surpassed in scientific research on their long studies or accompanied by humans to restrict their toxicity with them. Claus believes that neonatal virus is our current main opponent because of its strangeness. Inspeal to prevent. And she also reminded us, "At present, our relationship with the natural environment is seriously imbalanced ... it is also the direct cause of the recent increase in the infection of the new 'new' virus." When human beings are naturally invasion of human society with virus metaphors, naturally they may also regard excessive expansion humans as "viruses" of other creatures and plants. The evidence is the raging of the new virus in human society.

In this disturbing future, some Xi Guang revealed to the progress of human science and technology, allowing us to use or even domesticated some viruses to serve human society. But even so, future humans may still be unable to "tame" viruses completely, because it is like nature, with its own way of existence and always changes. The Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medical Award, Qiao Shia Laedberg, once said that "the biggest threat to human beings continues to rule the earth is the virus", but this may be the mystery of nature. And remind us of our own limits. Perhaps to a certain extent, to know the virus to know humanity itself.

Source | Jingbao APP

Edit: Chen Jianguo

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