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  • Biology Books Being Revised Due to Coronavirus

    This is satire

    The biology books for high school levels up through medical student textbooks are being revised due to the new theories of disease discovered suddenly in 2020.

    Now the disease is communicable by people who have no symptoms. This is a new model of the spread of disease. Don't refer back to the previous versions of the biology books. Those books were written before the coronavirus became popularized.

    Now, masks are needed when you walk to your table at the restaurant but the virus does not spread when you take off the mask to start eating.

    The virus would sneak through masks made of thick plastic covering your whole head. This is explained by Quantum Mechanics ... so it goes beyond your High School Biology textbooks.

    Another area of study concerns how the Wuhan virus only affected the Chinese in Wuhan. However, when spreading to other countries, quarantines were needed. Scientists think they are close to figuring out why the rest of China was not the least affected by this virus.

    Masks are now needed when you drive down the road. Otherwise, the virus will penetrate the metal and class exterior and sneak into the cars next to you. This is a new biological phenomena which is still being studied by scientists. Students, however, should be aware of this phenomena, as was revealed in a multitude of news stories.

    A mysterious significance of 6 foot social distancing has been established to protect people from non-contagious people around them. Interestingly enough, the wearing of the magical mask is not sufficient to decrease this necessary distancing. The scientists are still trying to figure out why the disease spreads so much quicker if you are only 5 feet away from others. It originally was thought that if you were near someone for less than 10 minutes, you would be safe. Now you can catch the virus if someone stares at you. Again, this is a novel discovery which required a special virus to reveal this to us.

    Most people have to go home and stay quarantined if tested positive for coronavirus, but if you are medical worker, it is okay to continue working because your are "essential." They eventually found that the simple designation of all people as essential thereby removed the virus' ability to spread.

    This is the first coronavirus that has been able to be cured by a vaccine -- within one year development time. This is a phenomenal success of science since the previous SARS vaccine development created an immune response ... but when the lab animals were exposed to the wild virus, they had a hyper reaction to the virus instead of immunity. It is amazing what science achieves when it is put on the spot to make a new cure. Just like cancer cures, spending billions of dollars on it will solve it quickly.

    Overall, the virus led to unimaginably fast discovery of vaccines (maybe a side effect of the virus for those scientists who did not die from it) and to the rejection of a hundred years of microbiological knowledge. The new textbooks will reflect the new understanding. Oh right. A warning to parents not to trip up their children with this old science stuff when these children ask help in their biology class.

    Any thoughts?
    Last edited by mikewhitney; 09-05-2020, 12:36 AM.

  • #2
    Originally posted by mikewhitney View Post
    This is satire

    The biology books for high school levels up through medical student textbooks are being revised due to the new theories of disease discovered suddenly in 2020.

    Now the disease is communicable by people who have no symptoms. This is a new model of the spread of disease. Don't refer back to the previous versions of the biology books. Those books were written before the coronavirus became popularized.

    Now, masks are needed when you walk to your table at the restaurant but the virus does not spread when you take off the mask to start eating.

    The virus would sneak through masks made of thick plastic covering your whole head. This is explained by Quantum Mechanics ... so it goes beyond your High School Biology textbooks.

    Another area of study concerns how the Wuhan virus only affected the Chinese in Wuhan. However, when spreading to other countries, quarantines were needed. Scientists think they are close to figuring out why the rest of China was not the least affected by this virus.

    Masks are now needed when you drive down the road. Otherwise, the virus will penetrate the metal and class exterior and sneak into the cars next to you. This is a new biological phenomena which is still being studied by scientists. Students, however, should be aware of this phenomena, as was revealed in a multitude of news stories.

    A mysterious significance of 6 foot social distancing has been established to protect people from non-contagious people around them. Interestingly enough, the wearing of the magical mask is not sufficient to decrease this necessary distancing. The scientists are still trying to figure out why the disease spreads so much quicker if you are only 5 feet away from others. It originally was thought that if you were near someone for less than 10 minutes, you would be safe. Now you can catch the virus if someone stares at you. Again, this is a novel discovery which required a special virus to reveal this to us.

    Most people have to go home and stay quarantined if tested positive for coronavirus, but if you are medical worker, it is okay to continue working because your are "essential." They eventually found that the simple designation of all people as essential thereby removed the virus' ability to spread.

    This is the first coronavirus that has been able to be cured by a vaccine -- within one year development time. This is a phenomenal success of science since the previous SARS vaccine development created an immune response ... but when the lab animals were exposed to the wild virus, they had a hyper reaction to the virus instead of immunity. It is amazing what science achieves when it is put on the spot to make a new cure. Just like cancer cures, spending billions of dollars on it will solve it quickly.

    Overall, the virus led to unimaginably fast discovery of vaccines (maybe a side effect of the virus for those scientists who did not die from it) and to the rejection of a hundred years of microbiological knowledge. The new textbooks will reflect the new understanding. Oh right. A warning to parents not to trip up their children with this old science stuff when these children ask help in their biology class.

    Any thoughts?
    Yeah, I suggest you read about Polio. Only about one-in-four people who get the Polio virus actually gets symptoms. That is why it has been so hard to eradicate.

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    • #3
      Originally posted by Leonhard View Post
      Yeah, I suggest you read about Polio. Only about one-in-four people who get the Polio virus actually gets symptoms. That is why it has been so hard to eradicate.
      Now polio is no longer one disease. It is has been divided into a whole set of diseases. So, people in America just have one of those "other" diseases instead of having "polio."

      The funny thing about polio in India ... it was not a problem until Gates started promoting the polio vaccine program in India.

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      • #4
        Does that mean that you reject the revision of the textbooks so that they include all the novel stuff we have finally discovered -- the discovery of how clever this virus is in only affecting people that don't have masks on?

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        • #5
          Originally posted by mikewhitney View Post
          Now polio is no longer one disease. It is has been divided into a whole set of diseases. So, people in America just have one of those "other" diseases instead of having "polio."
          There are three types of Polio virus in the wild, what is your point? We vaccinate against all three.

          The funny thing about polio in India ... it was not a problem until Gates started promoting the polio vaccine program in India.

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          • #6
            Originally posted by mikewhitney View Post
            Does that mean that you reject the revision of the textbooks so that they include all the novel stuff we have finally discovered -- the discovery of how clever this virus is in only affecting people that don't have masks on?
            In your post you stated sarcastically that we we were changing medical books, in that people without symptoms were able to spread the disease.

            I simple showed you that some viruses do that. The poliovirus is one of them.

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            • #7
              Here's Kennedy's site on this:
              https://childrenshealthdefense.org/n...y-vaccination/

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              • #8
                Originally posted by mikewhitney View Post
                Yes, but that link has nothing to do with the specific claim you made. You said Polio wasn't a problem in India until recently. It was a seriously endemic disease, and had been known about more than seventy years ago. They began a strong vaccination campaign against it in the in 1978 after which they were able to turn the peak beginning in the eighties.

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                • #9
                  Originally posted by mikewhitney View Post
                  Now polio is no longer one disease. It is has been divided into a whole set of diseases. So, people in America just have one of those "other" diseases instead of having "polio."
                  Similar to smallpox, which is still alive and well throughout the world but goes by other names like monkeypox and cowpox.
                  Some may call me foolish, and some may call me odd
                  But I'd rather be a fool in the eyes of man
                  Than a fool in the eyes of God


                  From "Fools Gold" by Petra

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                  • #10
                    Originally posted by Mountain Man View Post
                    Similar to smallpox, which is still alive and well throughout the world but goes by other names like monkeypox and cowpox.
                    I think you will find that the three diseases are in the same family but are not the same disease.

                    Edward Jenner noted that those who had contracted cowpox [milkmaids] did not develop smallpox. The word vaccination has its root in the Latin for "cow".

                    Jenner first tested his theory by taking material from a cowpox sore from a milkmaid's hand and innoculating a young boy with it . This was done by smearing the material from the sore into a scratch made on the boy's arm. A blister developed but the child soon recovered.

                    Several months later Jenner exposed the boy on a number of separate occasions to the smallpox virus, but the child never developed the disease.
                    "It ain't necessarily so
                    The things that you're liable
                    To read in the Bible
                    It ain't necessarily so
                    ."

                    Sportin' Life
                    Porgy & Bess, DuBose Heyward, George & Ira Gershwin

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                    • #11
                      What alerted Edward Jenner to this was his observation that danish milk maids were exceptionally free of scars from smallpox. That is what moved him to study why that was the case. His work into innoculation was groundbreaking and led to the development of vaccines.

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                      • #12
                        Originally posted by Leonhard View Post
                        What alerted Edward Jenner to this was his observation that danish milk maids were exceptionally free of scars from smallpox. That is what moved him to study why that was the case. His work into innoculation was groundbreaking and led to the development of vaccines.
                        How did he meet them? I understood he was a doctor working in Gloucestershire, England and made his observations from local milkmaids.
                        "It ain't necessarily so
                        The things that you're liable
                        To read in the Bible
                        It ain't necessarily so
                        ."

                        Sportin' Life
                        Porgy & Bess, DuBose Heyward, George & Ira Gershwin

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                        • #13
                          Originally posted by Hypatia_Alexandria View Post
                          How did he meet them? I understood he was a doctor working in Gloucestershire, England and made his observations from local milkmaids.
                          From what i've read it seems Jenner had heard that milkmaids having come down with cowpox were resistant to re-infection an so was born his idea of creating a vaccine for small pox.

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                          • #14
                            Originally posted by mikewhitney View Post
                            Does that mean that you reject the revision of the textbooks so that they include all the novel stuff we have finally discovered -- the discovery of how clever this virus is in only affecting people that don't have masks on?
                            Not any more clever than polio nor flus. Both diseases have infected persons spreading the virus without symptoms. Those without masks spread the polio and flu just like many virus diseases that are airborn. You now we inhail the virus particles on droplets of moisture.

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                            • #15
                              Originally posted by Hypatia_Alexandria View Post
                              How did he meet them? I understood he was a doctor working in Gloucestershire, England and made his observations from local milkmaids.
                              It seems I'm misremembering. I could have sworn of a story of him visiting Fyn island at the time. I think I might have mixed him up with another personality. Thank you for the heads up.

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