61 DAYS by FACETOUCHER

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1.	This now-notorious coronavirus was once an inconspicuous creature, lurking quietly in its natural host	14:25

2.	everything comes from somewhere, and viruses come from cellular creatures, such as animals, plants or fungi	1:16

3.	A virus can only replicate itself if it inhabits the cells of a more complex creature, like a sort of genetic parasite	5:54

4.	The virus persists at a low profile, without causing trouble, without proliferating explosively, and in return it gets long-term security.	3:14

5.	Its horizons are modest: relatively small population, limited geographical scope.	3:34

6.	But if another sort of creature comes in close contact with the host — by preying on it, by capturing it or maybe only by sharing the same cave — the virus might be jostled from its comfort zone and into a new situation: a new potential host.	13:11

7.	Viruses have no malice against us. They have no purposes, no schemes. They follow the same simple Darwinian imperatives as do rats or any other creature driven by a genome: to extend themselves as much as possible in abundance, in geographical space and in time.	2:27

8.	Their primal instinct is to do just what God commanded to his newly created humans in Genesis 1:28: “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it.”	3:30

9.	Not every successful virus will “subdue” the planet, but some go a fair way toward subduing at least humans.	3:46

10.	emerging from its nonhuman host with a fearsome capacity to grab, enter and replicate within certain human cells.	6:25

11.	Bad luck for us. But evolution is not rigged to please Homo sapiens.	1:29

12.	this virus has made a great career move, spilling over from its reservoir host into humans.	0:59

13.	It already has achieved two of the three Darwinian imperatives: expanding its abundance and extending its geographical range. Only the third imperative remains as a challenge: to perpetuate itself in time.	3:24

14.	Will we ever be rid of it entirely, now that it’s a human virus? Probably not.	4:14

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released January 8, 2021

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