Abnormal Krell on Covid

Way back in 2015, it didn't take a genius to predict that a pandemic was on its way.

Thornton Krell was no genius but he did have the ability to think both horizontally and vertically at the same time. This combination enabled him to think logically while understanding that his logical thinking was incapable of grasping anomalies. Thus Krell became a devotee of misunderstanding which he saw everywhere as an indication of the possibility of progress.

This kind of thinking established Krell as a nut.

A Charismatic lunatic.

Krell became increasingly nutty when he tried to explain things to the horizontally entrenched folks who depended upon logic and the senses to dictate "reality" which Krell automatically resisted.

Krell was never perceived as "normal" which he took as a compliment.

Krell was didactic. He was self-taught. He had his own curriculum.

Krell also knew something that only a few folks outside the ever changing world of medicine, specifically bacteriology and immunology understood only too well, namely that epidemics..even pandemics have long been a staple of "civilized" life and that we were due for another one at any moment.

As was his wont, Krell tried to oversimplify the danger and the process which infuriated so many who preferred logic to reality...the don't worry be happy folks who constituted the vast battalions of the normal.

Krell subscribed to enigma.

He knew some things about viruses. 

Viruses are an enigma that exist on the edge of life.

Most of what people considered to be "alive" were involved in metabolism which included inclusion, exclusion and toleration which means including food, burning oxygen, producing waste and reproducing by division.

Those processes define life even in the realm of bacteria. Those processes are normal.

A virus does not eat or burn oxygen for energy. They avoid any engagement that might be considered metabolic. They do not produce waste. They do not have sex. They make no side products. They do not even reproduce independently. They are at once, less than life and more than an inert collection of chemicals.

A virus has only one function; to replicate itself but is incapable of doing that on its own rather it invades cells and cells that have energy and like a Gepetto from Mars takes them over and forces them to make hundreds of thousands of new viruses.

This didn't start yesterday.

Any didactic will tell ya that.

This has been going on ever since Eden or whatever.

It's all about genes and genomes. Genomes are combinations of genes just as chords are combinations of musical notes.

All about DNA and even more about RNA. Genes tell cells what to do. Genomes respond like a player piano, making a music of its own without the assistance of Liberace or Elton John. 

When a virus invades a cell it inserts its own notes into the chords. The player piano then begins to produce the music of the virus instead of what the cell needs for itself.

The cells starts playing a different tune turning out hundreds of thousands of viral proteins which which bind together to form new viruses....new music...strange, deadly music until the keys on the piano lock permanently making the piano useless as a piano. 

The new music, out of control, bursts through the cell wall to invade other cells, other pianos.

Covid is the latest virus to invade our pianos and change the music of our species.

By now, we've all seen the imagery of the Covid; The crown like  protuberances on the top, the corona. It is these protuberances that allow the virus to unlock cells within our bodies that fool our immune systems into thinking everything is awright. They become a skeleton key fitting with exquisite precision into our cells bypassing our immune systems.

No previous virus had ever had this key before. 

Viruses combine to cause 90 percent of all respiratory infections. We tend to underestimate this ongoing invasion as the "flu". No biggie

We get a shot.

We get a cold. It's an endemic disease. It's always around.

Krell knew that throughout history endemics have become pandemics. Antigenic anomalies occur just as certainly as night follows day.

Krell knew all this but when he tried to tell people about these processes, he was regarded as an abnormal nut.

Krell didn't mind.

He got his flu shots every year. He told everybody to get theirs but he knew this was not gonna be enough  when anew variety of fit would eventually hit the shan.

Just a matter of time.

Krell like everybody else had no idea that his time was running out. 

Stay tuned

And get the goddamned vaccine

Then I'll tell you more.