The recent pandemic has scared people. Fear is inevitable, as is mistrust when you are confronted with the coughing or sneezing of the person sitting next to you, whether in the cinema or on the subway. Although the health alarm has stopped, it will take us decades to overcome the psychological damage of the coronavirus. Everything will depend on our sensitivity to reduce the spirits of fear. Clearing the trail won’t be easy. We have lived immersed in a dystopian novel where it is difficult to turn the page.
In this plan, the attack of memory takes us to the novel “Jurassic Park”, in which its author, Michael Crichton, has devised a plot based on a biological fact as original as the rescue of dinosaur DNA from the Blood of a mosquito preserved in amber millions of years. Something that is scientifically impossible. Because if it had been ice instead of amber, Crichton would have been closer to science and also to reality, since it would have been possible to rescue the genetic code from frozen blood.
This seems to be something new when we look at the recent pandemic, as it appears that permafrost (the frozen layer of ground in the polar regions) is melting with global warming, awakening zombie viruses that have been lying dormant for millions of years . The oldest is known to be the Pandoravirus, an infectious microorganism that belongs to the family of giant viruses and is up to ten times larger than an ordinary virus, but not as large as its cousin, Pithovirus sibericum, which, according to It seems, Due to its size it can be seen with a magnifying glass.
We must remember the 2016 anthrax outbreak in the Siberian tundra, which killed numerous reindeer and ended the life of a child
It seems to be the plot of a B-movie that Roger Corman made or that Alex de la Iglesia could certainly make. However, to be realistic, we must remember the 2016 anthrax outbreak in the Siberian tundra, which killed numerous reindeer and ended the life of a child. It was formed in melted permafrost. It is believed that the ancient spores of Bacillus anthracis, microscopic cell bodies that had remained dormant in the frozen corpse of a reindeer that had contracted the infection, awoke at that time.
This is not meant to be scaremongering, but given the effects of the corona virus, new pandemics cannot be ruled out. Especially when it is a zombie virus that resurfaces to scare us and test our fear every time someone sneezes nearby and we say “Jesus” or “Cheers”, and we say it not exactly from habit, but from superstition. It is of antiquity; from ancient Greece, when sneezing was the sign that something had entered the body and Zeus was named for each sneeze.
Christianity changed the name of the gods, but the fear remained. The rest is history, the substance that makes up time when time is no longer ours.
The stone axe It is a section in which Montero Glez, with his desire for prose, makes his particular attack on scientific reality to show that science and art are complementary forms of knowledge.
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