On The Origin Of The Home Of COVID-19 - 24

Why Picture-less puzzles?

Are you aware of the following?:

“If all viruses suddenly disappeared, the world would be a wonderful place for about a day and a half, and then we’d all die – that’s the bottom line,” says Tony Goldberg, an epidemiologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “All the essential things they do in the world far outweigh the bad things.
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"Most people are not aware of the role viruses play in supporting much of life on Earth, because we tend to focus only on the ones that cause humanity trouble. Nearly all virologists solely study pathogens; only recently have a few intrepid researchers begun investigating the viruses that keep us and the planet alive, rather than kill us."

“It’s a small school of scientists who are trying to provide a fair and balanced view of the world of viruses, and to show that there are such things as good viruses,” Goldberg says.

"What scientists know for sure is that without viruses, life and the planet as we know it would cease to exist. And even if we wanted to, it would probably be impossible to annihilate every virus on Earth. But by imagining what the world would be like without viruses, we can better understand not only how integral they are to our survival, but also how much we still have to learn about them."

(Why the world needs viruses to function). Why are we all, at one point or another, not aware of that fundamental reality? 

Because, as is pointed out in the quote above "Nearly all virologists solely study pathogens", and I might add that they work for those who are of the "kill anything that moves" ilk (On The Origin of The Bully Religion - 2).

They (big Pharma) also 'own' the news (Blind Willie McTell News, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6).

For the better part of a decade I have been 'getting into' both the knowledge and ignorance about viruses historically (What Did The Mass Extinctions Do To Viruses and Microbes?) and currently (The Real Dangers With Microbes & Viruses) in this the Sixth Mass Extinction  (posted some six years prior to the current pandemic).

For that and other reasons, the origin of the genes of viruses is a puzzle without a picture (On the Origin of the Genes of Viruses, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16).

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