A rant.
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Horn of Africa. Dawn of mankind. We barely learned to walk upright.
As every species awakens, so do its demons.
Algae,
Which learned to pierce cells.
Which learned to hijack the flies who learned to pierce skin.
Which learned how to pierce us.
Malaria awakening, bloodthirsty.
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In total, perhaps 6 billion have died.
6,000,000,000.
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Weapons of war. The code of life. Miracles of technology, weaponized.
Yes, we’d be responsible for massive interventions.
Yes, we'd have to be as careful as the cirumstances allow.
Yes, we'd have to try a highly isolated field tests first.
Yet, this is war.
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CVD, AD, PD.
Many sworn enemies we mostly invoke out with scary letter acronyms.
Don't invoke Voldemort.
Culicidae. Malaria. Culicidae. Dengue. Culicidae. Malaria. Culicidae.
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My first donation. Hundreds of bednets. But not enough. This is war.
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Listen, consider, and don’t be fooled.
Armchair bioethicists, in a cozy safe country, editing not genes but their publications.
Every minute they speak,
A child dies.
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The carrier or the cargo? The bomber or the bomb?
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The billions who died in millions of years,
who passed away in the delirium of fever,
They are watching us.
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Young ambitious person! Want to be on the leaderboard? Want to save millions of lives? Go make gene drives work well and work safely.
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What is the price of inaction?
The price is 600,000 lives a year.
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Our descendants yet to be,
Who may be wiser and kinder than us,
They are watching us.
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Suppression. Replacement.
Rage, rage against the dying of the child.
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