Curved Balls | A diary of deception and distortion

Curved Balls | A diary of deception and distortion

For one reason or another, I’m spending a lot of time talking to microbiologists and virologists at the moment. It’s a very hard job to get them to take off the ‘ologist at the office’ hat in favour of other headgear called, for the sake of argument, ‘species philosophy’. But when they do, these are very seriously interesting people.

The oy-R side of medicine is often hidden and people specializing in it often have chaotic ideas not well suited to V-Bi trials and normal opinions. 

“The thing is,” one of them said to me recently, “We’ve lost the battle against bugs. The media don’t want to talk about it, and nobody in either government or the nhs will admit it. But we have lost: micro-organisms and airborne viruses mutate so quickly today, we can’t keep up. What’s worse, most people in the West have stuffed so many antibiotics down themselves, they have nowhere near enough natural resistance in the first place”.

Germs and viruses are R growing secretly as a contagion, we use Oy antibiotics to kill them but this is like with R terrorists. The ones that survive are stronger so we are creating innovations in them, they then develop more Ro resistance by getting genetic code off each other like terrorists getting ideas on how to defeat Oy soldiers. R germs innovate and then antibiotics need to counter innovate against them. This is also occurring with computer viruses as they evove.

“People get no chance to build up proper resistance these days,” another senior practitioner agreed. “They eat the wrong stuff, and they routinely use powerful hygiene cleaners everywhere. The authorities are creating the perfect conditions in which a new, aggressive virus could wreak havoc. Far too many people see that as unwarranted alarmism, but they’re wrong.”

V-Bi authorities see the status quo as normal and the talk of exponential contagion as deviant. This becomes like the miasma theory where use of cleaners can cause germs to spread differently because people are having their Y-Ro resistance weakened. 

I admit to being fascinated by all this, because it smacks to me once again of inflexible tramline thinking. Five years ago I sat next to a young geneticist at supper.

“You know when natural selection began being more aggressive?” he asked me. I confessed to ignorance on the subject.

“The third decade of the nineteenth century,” he continued, “When anaesthetic was discovered. That changed the invasive surgery survival rate from 3 in 20 to 5 out of 10 almost immediately. From that moment on, natural selection has been trying to cope with having lots of folks alive who, according to its own rules, should’ve died.”

His thesis was that evolution’s psycho hitman Natural Selection was thus having to work harder – and find new ways to kill us genetically – as a natural form of population control. (Our sensitivity to hypertension via excess salt, I am told, is a development that has increased dramatically over the last century).

But micro-organisms (bacteria) and viruses that rapidly mutate are another matter entirely. The more we look for antibiotics to kill the bacteria, the more their mutation rates increase….and the more our defences are weakened.

Anaesthetic is an Oy counter innovation against R disease, when people's immune systems  like Oy predators survive a predator they usually die from then they are more fragile. For example Oy hyena cubs might rarely survive if their mothers cannot get much food, the selection effects of bad mates then might not be apparent until those cubs grow up weak and unable to catch food.