Today really just one photo and a bit more words. The virus news made me first gasp and then study the matter.

I was astonished, to put it mildly, when I found out a few days after the fact (thanks to Suzanne) that now the public opinion is that the virus indeed escaped from the lab. Funny, not funny that.
First I had a look at the documentary “76 Days”, which is how long the Wuhan lockdown lasted. As you can imagine, it is immersive and not an easy, but important viewing. It concentrates on one hospital and does not go into the why. No time for that.
Then I went to the source. It was the article by Nicholas Wade in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (not my usual reading matter) that made the world pay attention.
Not that the many who suffer, including those in India who recovered from Covid-19 but were then hit by the terrible black fungus necrosis, nor indeed all the dead care who opened the Pandora’s box – people or nature (and just like that we stopped being nature) – but it’s important to determine it for all the rest of us.
My poem is entirely made up of sentences and phrases from the article, including the title and the introductory quotation, only the last line is mine. Thank you, Nicholas Wade. The truth is palpable.
(If you wish to learn more, here is a recent debate with the author and the editor-in-chief.)
On the Right Track “Truth is the daughter not of authority but time.” ~Francis Bacon Coronaviruses – you can manipulate them in the lab pretty easily. Humanized mice? Infectious clone technology? In vitro and in vivo infection experiments? Spillover potential? This work never should have been funded and never should have been performed. But the case, however substantial, falls short of proof. Evolution’s hallmark way of doing business. Evolution is always producing results that may seem unlikely but in fact are not. A bristling array of implausibilities, outright false or designed to misdirect and mislead. Fruitless run-around. Pure baloney. Why SARS2 has a furin cleavage site, and its cousin viruses don’t? Virologists around the world have been playing with fire. But the power to create new viruses was too tempting. Anyone who rocks the boat runs the risk. Maybe good behavior is rewarded. “If this research was so dangerous, why did you fund it, and on our territory too?” A Wuhan lab cooking up novel viruses of maximal danger in unsafe conditions could eventually displace the ideological insistence that whatever Trump said can’t be true. But all that is a story for another time. Readers will form their own opinion. Did we do anything right?
In response to Patrick Jennings’ Pic and a Word Challenge #273: Right
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A chilling read…well done
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Thank you, Sue. Quite chilling, this entire matter. 😦
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Indeed it is
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I’ve always thought that a good poem could be made by scrolling down the song titles in Spotify or some other song software and taking part of a title or all of it and then taking another and so on. I’ll send you one. Duke
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Yesss, please, do! I’ve got many like this. They are called centos, I’ve learned. Thanks!
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Nice collection.
But don’t except his re-election.
Why the comment section?
You slipped in a Trumpism.
You are forgiven.
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Hihh, thank you for forgiveness, Gerry! I would neither accept, except or expect his re-election though. (As I say, all the words in the poem except the last line are from the article I link to. He mentioned Trump. I wouldn’t.)
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I thought you’d get a chuckle! 😂😂😂
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Very clever reworking of the words, Manja. 😎
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Thank you, Julie, glad to hear this. I shared this poem on my FB and there is not a single reaction to it. Algorithms hid it well. :p
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Thanks for linking and for reminding me of Patrick’s cchallenge – I used to do them then forgot during a blogging break. I must get back to them. Your found poem.is excellent. It is completely insane that research into making deadly viruses is ever funded.
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Ah, great, Suzanne, I’ve just started to take part again after a yearlong break. Thanks again for your post, I probably still wouldn’t know about it. Completely insane is right.
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Did we do anything right? Pretty much nothing. Science has no more ethics than politics. (K)
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Right, K. Which is really distressing. Thank you.
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