"The health of nations..."

                      some sort of skin problem has affected several foxes recorded lately

i keep hearing commentators referring to the corona virus
as a devil and a monster and such as that
the virus is an organism...just as humans are
and it is not even considered to be alive by  some
however...this organism seems to have found a
receptacle in the human body in which it can
live for a while.. sometimes it kills the host..
apparently the bats evolved to live with it
it may be that humans will evolve immunity
enough to not be severely affected by it any more
than the cold or the flu
according to an article by John Gribbin in a 2018
"Scientific American" magazine a little more than
150,000 years ago the human population was reduced
to no more than a few thousand,  or even a few hundred
"breeding pairs"....and about 10,000 years ago the entire
human population fell to about 1000.
 now we humans have gotten to numbers which
seem to us unassailable by any threat except
possibly ourselves...but there is more in nature than
we know and we may indeed spend an increasing amount
of our time an resources to protect ourselves no longer
from the cave bear or the saber-toothed tiger but from
organisms hidden beneath the soil or in the bodies of
our fellow earth dwellers....

"The health of nations is more important
than the wealth of nations."  Will Durant