So when I heard about the controversy about putting sanitizer inside people to protect them from
coronavirus disease my ears stood up, another simile, and I recalled my
childhood mathematics tutor in Bengal who regularly put a drop of mustard oil in
his nostrils to clear his sinus of bacteria and lubricate his mind. I could not
bring myself to follow his example and convinced myself that I had oil-free
bearings in my head. Without delving in semantics or philosophical psychology
one can easily truncate sanitizer into sanity which, if introduced into people
results in a healthy and prosperous society.
Unfortunately, the real problem is
not putting it in people, the real problem is finding it. (This is humor and not
simile.)
We often tend to forget that all future viruses were taken into account
when the human genome was originally designed and we all have the thing called
immune system that can besiege and render any virus harmless before it can
damage any of the organs. So if you eat food that improves your immune system
such as fruit, nuts and dairy products and have a zest for life you should be
ok.
Although there are many antiviruses available for computers, I have not yet
seen any for people. All the hand sanitizers I have seen have ‘antibacterial’
written on them. None mentions viruses. So, I assume that anything that is
antibacterial may also be used to eliminate external viruses with faith in God
or Allah as the case may be. Soap is good protection against viruses as
according to medical people it dissolves the skin of the virus and kills it
instantly. However, if a moron on the hill advises you to add a piece of soap to
the chloroquine, don't do it. Eating, injecting or pouring soap solution in your
nose will only irritate you and may be harmful.
Ever since the non-Islamophobic
French scientist Luis Pasteur, mankind has come to believe that vaccines are the
only cure for communicable diseases. The original vaccine production technique
was to infect a horse with a bacterium, draw his blood and separate the serum
which contained the antibodies that fought the bacteria. If the antibody was
introduced into a human body, it would multiply and lie in wait to hunt the
specific bacteria for many years to come. Apparently, horse sense was able to
decode the genetic profile of the bacterium and generate a code for a DNA that
could identify and destroy the bacteria in the blood and flesh etc.
Until a few
years ago it was believed that there can be no vaccine for a viral affliction
which normally gets naturally cured within a week or two. However, with the
development of powerful computers and highly deft robots it is possible to
sequence and molest the hypothetical double helix of the DNA and find an
inverted sequence that can neutralize the original stuff. Some antivirus
vaccines are made from castrated viruses that cannot grow but can attract the
wrath of the immune system that results in the production of antibodies by a
natural process that scientist cannot imitate.
The million-dollar question now is whether it is possible to create a mental sanitizer that can bring about
sanity.
