![]() “Strangely, the flu saved at least one life that autumn–that of a young Hungarian physicist named Leo Szilard. I remember the name Szilard, like blizzard, from Spinney page 8, November 1918: r 1918: According to Dennis Gabor, the British-Hungarian inventor of holography, Leo Szilard tried in 1928 to convince him to build an electron microscope. John Campbell, and started watching, 26 January, it opens with John top right, a camera peering down on an electron micrograph of a coronavirus, John with red pen begins to circle the edge of one. Does it all connect? What would Slothrop the war paranoiac say? China… SARS 2004… poor practice this is how a disease works, we live in a systemic world, who would have guessed the next global financial crisis would come from a bat in Wuhan… then again habitat loss has been linked to increases in virus secretion in some forms of bat. Conspiracies of the plague, locusts in east Africa, biowarfare, strange closures of labs, U.S. ![]() I started watching videos late into the night – drones over deserted Wuhan, microscopic exposure plates of COVID-19, a solar corona in eclipse… bats…how bats immune systems are so powerful they don’t suffer from the phlegm drowning humans do. Yesterday I started reading two books – Pale Rider : The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How it Changed the World (Laura Spinney) and The Plague (Albert Camus).
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