The discernment and the guide

creatures clinging to whatever elusive immediate comfort was still granted them conditionally?

To what ends? For what purpose?

All categories of explanations and denials were circulating in the atmosphere and contributed to further inhibit and paralyse even the inner movements of each and every person. There was no visible violence, no one appeared to be physically forced or threatened – except in regions where poorer populations struggled to comply with the orders given them for purely material reasons.

Everywhere was the same reference to a particular virus and its lethal properties, which were said to have spread all over the earth.

But did everyone understand what a virus is?

The actual number of viruses within the terrestrial milieu is unquantifiable; they constitute one of the primary, founding materials of living nature which it uses ever since the origins of life to all sorts of ends. A virus is neutral: its properties and potentials are only activated if and when it is hosted by a living organism and according to the communication that develops within the organic equilibrium it has entered. Certain viruses have been isolated and identified in research laboratories – both theoretical and applied research – for various experiments. Thus some of these have indeed been manipulated or tampered with, which is to say that their genetic “sequences” have been somewhat modified. Whatever be the case, if there is indeed an endemic proliferation, whether accidental or deliberate, of such a virus, its behaviour will inevitably vary according to its host and the human body, being an ancient of the evolution, can eventually cope with all viruses insofar as it is enabled to

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