Everyone is fed up, right? Thousands of hours on radios and TVs, kilometers of signs in the gazettes will have been devoted to the coronavirus. To say and repeat the same things back and forth, without ever asking the right questions.
In March 2020, when we were only at the beginning, the infectious disease specialist Didier Sicard, no more stupid than so many experts from TF1 or from France Inter, wondered. Very aware of the subject, he called for an urgent examination of the animal causes of the pandemic. And as he knew part of Asia very well, he added : “What struck me in Laos, where I often go, is that the primary forest is declining because the Chinese are building stations and trains there. These trains, which cross the jungle without any health precautions, can become the vector of parasitic or viral diseases and transport them through China, Laos, Thailand, Malaysia and even Singapore. The Silk Road, which the Chinese are completing, may also become the route for the spread of serious diseases. “
The new Silk Road, which makes so many economists and other morons swoon, will eventually link China – a 5,000 km four-lane is being completed there -, Central Asia and even Europe where a Viktor Orbán, a Hungarian Trump clone, is selling his country to Beijing. Let us specify for the attention of the grumpy that I am not a specialist in anything. I see, as I read, that a global affair like this harbors countless mysteries. Will we go around it?
But that should not prevent talking about what we know with reasonable certainty. And there is no doubt that the planetary ecological crisis is the main culprit for the emergence of so many threatening viruses. The logic is generally known: human activities put living organisms back into circulation neutralized by stable biological relationships for millennia, sometimes hundreds of millennia.
The incursion of humans – poachers following the trail of loggers – into the most untouched tropical forests could not fail to have consequences. And this is just a small example. Many so-called emerging viruses are in fact zoonoses, diseases or infections that pass from animals to humans. This is the case with Ebola, hantaviruses, SARS, West Nile fever, probably AIDS. This is just an overview, as there are around 200 zoonoses, many of which are bacterial.
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The global ecological crisis is the main culprit behind the emergence of so many threatening viruses
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From April 17, 2020 – there will soon be a year -, 16 heads of as many different scientific organizations wrote : “The Covid-19 pandemic is closely linked to the issue of the environment: it is, once again, a human disturbance of the environment, and of the man-nature interface, often amplified by the globalization of exchanges and lifestyles, which accelerates the emergence of viruses dangerous for human populations. “
And the same asked a question that should petrify our leaders: “In light of the health crisis we are going through, it is paradoxical to note that the studies of medicine and pharmacy continue to largely ignore the biology of evolution, and that it has recently become optional for two thirds of a high school student course. “
Clearly, everyone does not care. Why ? Among the many reasons involved, I retain two. One, our current chefaillons, who include official environmentalists, are monumental uneducated. They do not know, obsessed as they are, for the most part, by their personal fate and their place in the state apparatus. Two, the few who see a glimmer do not have the courage to question the world that is theirs, its organization, its goals.
It would require the strength of a Gandhi, and we only have at our disposal a political and administrative class lower in ceiling than the last of the garden gnomes. This is why your daughter is silent. ●
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