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Human safari of Coronavirus forced man to go for cave living

@AmruthavalliGV

The evolution of novel coronavirus and its subsequent human invasion has abruptly forced man to go back to his stone age or cave living.  It is not the science of man that appears to have come to help him to deal the pandemic but instead, his forefather’s life style or his evolutionary instinct only has come to help him from the new virus.  

WHO (World Health Organization) and the medical & scientific community all over the world has served a whip to people that people should not come out of their house and instead must be buried inside the dwelling or roosting place whether one may call it a bungalow or flat or hut.  Indirectly the above advisory implicates the fact that the novel coronavirus has come for human safari so people must hide in their dwelling places in order to not to become the ‘darling’ of the new virus.  According to the advisory, the novel coronavirus has not just come for safari alone but also to hunt man. 

As long as man prefers or forced to hide in his dwelling place, so long the virus may wait patiently.  But man wants to hide from the virus and then wants to develop all possible war strategy against the virus like Guerrilla warriors and once preparations are over then he can strike the virus like Red ranger. 

The big question is where is our science in dealing the pandemic? 

In dealing the pandemic posed by novel coronavirus, man has used nothing but his ‘crude’ innate sense, that is, hide or flee from the scene when there is a threat.  Hasn’t man reduced his scientific acumen and wisdom and forced people to retreat inside a cave (quarantine) to deal the pandemic? 

Use of mask can be equated to hide from the pathogen and quarantine and lockdown situation can be equated to how animals used to run inside the burrow for safety.  The measures suggested by WHO and the scientific community, does not have even an elementary scientific understanding about how infections and pathogens spread and how to deal it rather than hide away from the pathogen.   

Fight till the end instead of fleeing from the scene would have helped man to defeat the virus but man offered his fear and ignorance to the virus in a silver platter.

When we go for a wildlife safari, we will be travelling inside a safe vehicle through which we can see animals but the animals cannot attack us.  But quite contrary to our wildlife safari, we have let the novel coronavirus to come for human safari in an open jeep but we have gone invisible by forcing us to hide inside our burrows.  

What a fantastic policy the world has adopted to deal the pandemic?  If we had applied the elementary science that it is not mere virulence of the virus, the resistance mechanism that we acquire alone can protect us from the new invader.  Therefore no new pathogen can ever vanquish or slain the entire human population and nor for such purpose, can they evolve. 

In any population, the popularly accepted default notion is that only healthy people may be very active and come out frequently to the streets (public places) and the weaker ones (sick) either remain coiled in some corner of the house or temple or some forbidden barren land. 

The ‘healthy’ people should be defined also from the contextual sense and should not be based on CD4 and CD8 cell counts.   The people on the street / road are always likely to get exposed to a variety of pathogens (primary, secondary or opportunistic).   The frequency, duration and diversity of the organisms that man gets exposed to on daily basis are unimaginably high, especially in public places.   But still large number of people led a healthy life means, some ‘an extra constitutional immune defence’ may exist in such people.  

If we go by the text book paradigm of immunology, we may not able to gauge or understand what really protects all those people from the world of microbes to which we are exposed to on daily basis.  Why should we compulsively believe that a microbe once declared deadly shall remain deadly to man forever giving no scope or possibility to the organism to become benign and friendly?  

Like us, microbes also have own aspirations and desire to multiply and grow and finally identify and settle with its eternal host and attain climatic climax relationship. 

When such desire dominates, the microbes may prefer in all likelihood, a peaceful life and peaceful co-existence with man.  Therefore virtually the elementary defence in our system itself may be sufficient and may protect us from various pathogens.  The innate desire of the pathogens to become benign and merciful with man to live long, we should not ignore or discount even in the case of novel coronavirus.  

Evolution can only favour interdependence and not elimination. 

Therefore every new species that evolve usually come only gracefully to its host/habitat to exist in harmony with the host/habitat and not to create violence or fight. 

When the novel coronavirus challenged man, from illiterate street hawker to scholar to medical expert to scientist to devotee of God to the left and right wing liberals, everyone recalled nothing but the evolutionary memory and the instinct that better hide inside the burrow to escape from the virus than show courage and understand the pathogen instead of fear mongering and serving unnecessary red alert to man.  

When fear and helpless threatens, man forgets his science, abandons his knowledge and common sense and finally seeks the help from his ‘animalia’ life.  The extreme side of the above instinct, even Modi, the prime minister of India also has shown in one of his speeches by advising people to follow AYUSH recipes to boost the immunity and prevent the viral infection.  In simple sense, man should starts to eat leaves and other similar stuff of faith based healing system to gain protection from novel coronavirus.

Man neither trusted the geniuses of nature, tenets of evolution of new species or his own science but instead ran like a rat and Meer cat, inside the burrow to hide.

If we had allowed the world to maintain the statuesque even during the safari period of the virus, by now the virus would have followed the art of co-existence with man than kill and or get killed norms of prey-predator model of life. 

If we had not imposed any lockdown, nor forced people to follow other rudimentary norms, the virus may have changed from secondary pathogen status to opportunistic pathogen or even, commensal virus.   When we allow such equilibrium between man and novel coronavirus to establish naturally, some level of casualty is quite natural and inevitable for both the man and also for the virus. 

The psychological element of human emotion called ‘courage’ is also known to indirectly impact the immune functioning of man and other animals.  We made man to be scared, sceptical and suspicious while we let the novel coronavirus to roam freely and courageously without any element of fear or threat.   Under the above circumstances the formation of even ‘herd’ immunity against the pathogen is not possible?

When the proportion of resistant population is at least 10 fold higher over the susceptible population and the susceptible population being scattered and skewed in its distribution and the resistance population being dominant, the chance of novel coronavirus to become a mild pathogen or an opportunistic pathogen is high.  Or else the coronavirus would have become a ‘strict’ pathogen with least spread ability or communicability.  

But unfortunately we allowed our fear and ignorance to be more virulent than the science and finally killed both our economy and science.   Will science ever allow man to come out of the cave or the science is going to look forward for the sister or brother of novel coronavirus in future so instead of doing good science and research; fear mongering can be done effectively. 

About the author

Amruthavalli G.V
M.Pharmacy from JSS college of Pharmacy,Ootacamund,Tamilnadu. Worked in Himalaya Drug Company, Bangalore, Asthagiri herbal research foundation, Chennai and Dr.JRK’s Research and Pharmaceuticals Pvt Ltd, Chennai. Have published about 100 original research articles in herbal medicine.

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