The Intelligent Virus and the Original Sin

Jesus stood up and said to her, “ Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you?” and she said, “ No one, Lord.” And Jesus said ”. Neither do I condemn you; go, and from now on sin no more.” John 8:1 -11

When we were still anthropomorphous monkeys we couldn’t sin, that is we couldn’t go against nature’s laws. With the original sin, that is when monkeys passed to Homo Herectus, Habilis and finally to Homo Sapiens Sapiens, we thought we were quite emancipated from nature’s laws. [1]

Not accidentally the first epidemics happened with the origin of large cities [2]. Until Homo Sapiens was represented by small wandering gangs of hunters and picking people, when the territory couldn’t give a support for all the members of the group any longer, the latter, was forced to move looking for new territories; and” step by step” from equatorial Africa the first Sapiens colonized the whole world and arrived as far as Patagonia.

From the National Geografic. March 2006 “ Man’s great journey” pag.67-8

During the centuries there have been several epidemics [3], but from 1750 the one that is called the “Vital Revolution” [4] started. In fact from the end of the XVIII century the chart of world population assumed a constantly vertical trend with a yearly growth of 94 million units a year in 1933. (Vital Revolution and overpopulation). This growth has never stopped. Half 1994 the total of human population was of 5,66 bilion.

The last big epidemic, comparable to the ones of the past, was the so called “ Spanish”[5] which raged from 1918 to 1920, causing about 50 and 100 million dead, that is a number of deaths bigger than the one during the whole World War.

The “Spanish” [6] epidemic didn’t stop that process of exponential growth of human population that is going on unceasingly and, according to some projections, will get to a total of 11 million people in 2070. [7]

From 1920 there have been some more epidemics:

• the Asian flu, in 1956, passed through wild ducks from China, caused one milion dead, but since it was diluted in time it didn’t affect the “ ecomic boom” of those years at all;

• The space epidemic between 1969-1970 passed totally unnoticed;

• SARS had a bigger media impact in 2003, the first epidemic by coronavirus of XXI century. Wild ducks from the Chinese district of Guandong where coronavirus had made the species jump were responsible. Because of the few victims ( 8200 all over the world) SARS epidemic, apart from the media rumour of the moment, didn’t particularly worry the scientific community and Carlo Urbani, the Italian doctor who had identified the virus, was the only real victim. Also all scientific-philosofic studies on the subject – among them the book “ The Intelligent Virus” published just in those years [8] – were completely ignored.

At this point, always from an intelligent virus’s point of view and that is it supports nature’s “intelligence”, it is as if “nature” had decided to raise its voice so that human beings could hear it at last.

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[1] …Besides God planted a garden in Eden, eastwards, and placed there the man he had shaped. So God grew, from the soil, every tree desirable to be seen and good as food and also  the life tree in the middle of the garden and the tree of good and evil knowledge […other]

Man’s adventure on the planet earth begins with the Original Sin, that is with the evolution from anthropomorphous monkey to Homo herectus passing through Australopithecus africanus and Homo habilis [….other] 

Let’s not forget it was a bearer of light gene, that is of consciousness and knowledge and so a gene linked to the intellective functions of the encephalon. Just as we have seen to do to other fragments of Dna, such as viruses, since it was a part of nature’s intelligence, it intended to create, with man, a survival machine which, with an intelligence of its own, could emancipate  from nature’s intelligence. This way the gene was a rebellious angel as it rebelled against Nature-God. [….other]

[2]  The earth colonization process was completed about in 10,000 B.C. According to a big virologist in this precocious phase of human existence, from the beginning of Pleistocene till 10,000 B.C., infections caused by microorganisms which adapted themselves to live on man, were practically inesistent. Only when agriculture replaced food picking and larger and permanent communities took the place of small wandering gangs, a viral accidentally acquired infection got an opportunity for large transfers to other people and to develop a typically human disease. Sir Mac Farlane Burnet Virus as organism. Pag.32. Harvard University Press. 1954 […other]

[3] […other] 

[4] Contemporaneously the discovery of the first vaccines the vital revolution, the one that was called like that by some authors, started. Until then there had been periods, even long ones, of demographic growth but they stopped dramatically and a sudden increase of death rate brought back world population nearly to the start point of growth moments. […other] 

[5] […other]

[6] Nearly 100 years have passed from that epidemic, but the images of those days when everybody, but really everybody, wore masks still impress us. Nowadays hundreds maybe thousands dead have been necessary before OMS could acknowledge the importance of this form of prevention.

[7] Very recent works, among them the very beautiful Factfulness by Hans Rosling, have deduced that the exponential growth of human population tends to stop since the more economic well-being increases the fewer children women spontaneously have. According Rosling, in 2070, world human population, after getting to 11 bilion people, will stop its growth. It isn’t here the seat where to explain why, let’s only say that the number of children decreases with the growth of economic well-being. […other] 

[8] In 1993 the very interesting Emerging Viruses, edited by Stephen Morse, had been published by Oxford University Press.

Translated from “Il Virus Intelligente” by Enrica Narducci