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"...it is quite possible that the virus 'acted alone' in its own origin..."
Incline Village, NV (Exclusive to EOC Lab)--Much has been made of the new world plague that originated in Wuhan, China. Or did it? Politicians and demagogues alike would lead us to believe it was manufactured in a secret project inside the bio-weapons lab located in that city. The online news media Politico ICU ward recently breathed new life into the Wuhan lab conspiracy theory;
"In the spring of 2020, inside the U.S. government, some officials began to see and collect evidence of a different, perhaps more troubling theory—that the outbreak had a connection to one of the laboratories in Wuhan, among them the WIV, a world leading center of research on bat coronaviruses." (Rogin, Politico)
"There was a conduit from Wuhan to the provinces in South China, where the closest relative viruses [to the coronavirus] are found in bats.” (quoting Dr. Peter Daszak, zoologist)
Still, that doesn't draw any comfort as to its origin from the dark, gloomy caves in Asia to the hospital beds in Los Angeles and the morgues around the city. At the same time, the conflicting theories on the origin fall into what Patricia Roberts-Miller described in her groundbreaking work on politics, Demagoguery and Democracy, as a false dilemma;
"occurs when a rhetor sets out a limited number of options, generally forcing one’s hand by forcing one to choose the option he or she wants. Were all the options laid out, then the situation would be more complicated, and the rhetor’s proposal might not look so good." (Miller, epub, 112-116)
Political expediency, according to Roberts-Miller, requires any dispute to be reduced to the binary either-or solution and the coronavirus origin theory is no exception. At first one might ask, what's the difference? Isn't it far more important to discover the ending, not the beginning? Yes and no. Yes because the species may not live to see it; no because there may be other just as credible, non-political, undemagoguery inviting theories for its origin. One such might go beyond the nature of ordinary explanations of how new-millennia viruses develop and spread.
Classical definitions have to find, to "pinpoint" that exact location, like a first responder looking for the arsonist's gas can out in the forest. What if the outbreak, the fire came from a number of independent, but similar, circumstances, as witnessed by the devastating California dry lightning storms last summer? Certainly, the governor couldn't be recalled for that one, a purely natural phenomenon. If the governor, the lab staff and the politicians were eliminated from coronavirus theory, then the natural order is responsible but in an even more significant way than the WHO, "the fire started here" method. It is called "nonlinear systems theory;"
"Nonlinear systems theory is a new scientific paradigm that developed out of the realization that apparently random variation can shape the irreversible evolutionary paths of complex systems." (Spencer-Wood, Hidawi)
What exactly is that "random variation" attributed to the pandemic? Not so much that it appeared to have a linear evolution, but it began to take shape in a nonlinear fashion when mutations were discovered, continents apart. Even so, that "new scientific paradigm" needs to have more life breathed into it before becoming a viable theory to contend with the lab-marketplace political binary; that new life is a very old concept: spontaneous generation. That is spontaneous generation with a twist, inorganic rather than organic. That is, also drawing a fine line between what separates the two and into which category a virus falls. In her nonlinear model, Spencer-Wood states "Paradigms limit the patterns and processes we can perceive and analyze from data," which fits into the positivist process of observation based theory, making it possible to contain, and maintain, control over the environment, nature, and ultimately the civilized world. Depending on the viewpoint, it usually ends up meaning the male-dominated patriarchy which so reviles freedom seeking feminist radicals. That doesn't mean there isn't any merit to the concept, but the patriarchs don't want it as they will lose their grip on credibility, on scientific ethos. Spencer-Wood cites the (E.N., 1993) Lorenz model and the difference between nonlinear and chaos;
Drawing on that and the concept of spontaneous generation, it is quite possible that the virus "acted alone" in its own origin, without the help of a secret bioweapons lab or an unfettered wildlife trade market. Spontaneous generation, the archaic process by which life sprung from inorganic matter, combined with non-linear chaotic theory, yields a virus appearing at random locations, at random times, in similar but random forms, with no distinct origin. The theories behind spontaneous generation are far more complex, outdated, unrealistic and non-scientific to have any impact on the role of patriarchal positivism that is the foundation of the demagogue's binary perception of reality and nature as a servant of that vision. Those of nonlinear chaos are too modern for the archaic viewpoint of the fettered scientist, limited in his role by observation and current narrow paradigms that are for the most part under the censorship of the government. For that matter, a close reading of the Lorenz theory would only add more chaos to the limited insight necessary to bring an end to the pandemic, which should be the ultimate goal, not looking for the beginning.
Cited:
State Dept. & Covid Origin, https://www.state.gov/ensuring-a-transparent-thorough-investigation-of-covid-19s-origin/
Bose, Joydeep, No evidence of Covid-19 leak from Wuhan lab, may have emerged from wildlife trade, say WHO scientists | Hindustan Times
Roberts-Miller, P., Demagoguery and Democracy, The Experiment, NY, epub, 2020
Dry lightning, LNU, CZU, SCU complex fires started by staggering lightning storm: WATCH - ABC7 San Francisco (abc7news.com)
Spencer-Wood, S., Nonlinear Systems Theory, Feminism, and Postprocessualism (hindawi.com)
Lorenz, TheEssenceOfChaos_Lorenz.pdf
Toker, A simple method for detecting chaos in nature | Communications Biology
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