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"Let us remind ourselves that viruses are not sentient--they do not think ahead and plan a course of action."
'Sentient' means the ability to FEEL (physical sensations, like hot, cold, pain, etc., and/or emotional, such as fear or joy)--sense perception. Sentient **does not** mean the ability to plan ahead or think about the future.
— Aug 14, 2025 08:23PM
'Sentient' means the ability to FEEL (physical sensations, like hot, cold, pain, etc., and/or emotional, such as fear or joy)--sense perception. Sentient **does not** mean the ability to plan ahead or think about the future.
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"...[V]iruses have contributed in vitally important ways to the evolving genomes of their hosts, and to the ecological cycles of host survival and death." Yeah, and so have landslides.
— Aug 15, 2025 09:28PM
The Overflowing Inkwell
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Rosy glasses 2.0: playing permanent host to EBV virus when it is latent in our B-lymphocyte cells is a good thing according to the author, since you can never be re-infected with EBV. Uh....
— Aug 14, 2025 09:09PM
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Rosy glasses are FIRMLY in place.
"Parents will be familiar with the anxiety that comes with childhood rashes and fevers...That worry, is perhaps, a residuum of a fear from times only recently gone by when unpleasant things really did happen in the dark of night...How fortunate we are now that our families are protected by antibiotics/vaccines/antivirals"--as if nowadays no child ever dies of these illnesses????
— Aug 14, 2025 07:35PM
"Parents will be familiar with the anxiety that comes with childhood rashes and fevers...That worry, is perhaps, a residuum of a fear from times only recently gone by when unpleasant things really did happen in the dark of night...How fortunate we are now that our families are protected by antibiotics/vaccines/antivirals"--as if nowadays no child ever dies of these illnesses????
