Tony Goldberg, a well-known epidemiologist at Wisconsin Madison, one of the world's top public research universities, has publicly stated that "the virus has done far more to the world than it has caused." If all the viruses suddenly disappear for no apparent reason, all the creatures on Earth will die within 36 hours"! Is this true?
For thousands of years, fearsome viruses have claimed the lives of countless living beings. As far as humans are concerned, the flu pandemic that ravaged the world in the 20s of the last century caused 100 million deaths, and later two hundred million died of smallpox, and the new coronavirus that is now circulating is only one of a series of deadly viruses in history.
So we always think that biotechnology to completely eliminate viruses must save a lot of lives, but in fact, this idea is extremely deadly for humans. Because some scholars have published a paper in the journal "PLoBiology" that the reason why humans have been able to reproduce so far is closely related to an ancient retrovirus from 130 million years ago. Why do you say that?
Viruses are an important part of the Earth's ecosystem. More than 90% of life in the ocean is plankton, which in turn is the producer of nearly half of the Earth's oxygen. It is precisely because bacteriophage viruses kill 20% of marine microbes and 50% of marine bacteria every day, providing sufficient nutrients for plankton, that they can maintain an efficient photosynthetic rate and produce a lot of oxygen, allowing many organisms on Earth to survive.
At the same time, the virus maintains ecological balance in unique ways. When a population grows too fast, the corresponding virus also multiplies rapidly, weakening the population to create living space for other species.
Scientific research has shown that viruses that invade host cells hijack their replication vectors for rapid replication. When this happens in germ cells, the code of the virus will be hereditary, that is, each organism infected by the virus has the possibility to absorb and use the virus gene and pass it on to the next generation, and the evolution of the earth's species is from this, if all viruses disappear completely, the evolutionary potential of all species, including humans, may be imprisoned.
Biologists are said to have found that the human genome contains 8% of the viral component, while the mammalian genome usually contains nearly 100,000 remaining virus-derived genes. Their presence sometimes gives the host entirely new or even essential functions. For example, the formation of long-term human memory is closely related to the coding of a virus-derived gene.
So there is a saying that compared to humans, viruses are "veritable" to the oldest indigenous people on Earth, who have survived for billions of years. Although after entering the 21st century, human beings have a deeper and deeper understanding of viruses with advanced science and technology, but this is not worth mentioning at all, because scientists speculate that there are at least millions of viruses on the earth, but only a few hundred have been discovered in all mankind.
In fact, from God's point of view, the virus is not deliberately aimed at humans, and its purpose is simply to try to survive and avoid being eliminated by nature. The real danger is the murderers who use the virus to cause disaster, who are dressed in human skin but do some evil deeds, and sooner or later they will be punished.