I must say that this new coronavirus has made a mockery of modern medicine. Many lives have been saved by doctors and healthcare workers. Nonetheless modern medicine is clearly beaten by the virus, is in no way equal to its challenge. Too many have become infected, too many have died. Too late a vaccine.

Medical science ought to rethink its approach to germs. Currently the leaders and spokespersons for infectious disease science are reduced to calls for changing social practice as the best means to limit covid19. How is that working out, I ask?

Research is frantic in this area of science. The solution and cure, of course, is understanding and knowledge. Isolate the virus, analyze it, destroy it.

The biology of human cells is the answer. Looking at the makeup of our cells, we see the remnants of past invaders. Life on Earth is open, not closed. We are not visiting Earth, Earth is our home. … and yet?

Smallpox, AIDS, Influenza, polio, measles, Ebola etc.; such have been interacting with us forever. Why and what for? Evolutionary change, mutation, is there an end, a goal?