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"Viruses do not always lyse their hosts fatally; they can be lysogenic, entering the host genome to do other things. Here they become crucial mutualists, contributing profoundly to speciation by allowing the now-evolved host to perform new tricks—as when one everyday retrovirus added its transformational genomics to a particular line of multicellular organisms during the Late Triassic."
"Viruses do not always lyse their hosts fatally; they can be lysogenic, entering the host genome to do other things. Here they become crucial mutualists, contributing profoundly to speciation by allowing the now-evolved host to perform new tricks—as when one everyday retrovirus added its transformational genomics to a particular line of multicellular organisms during the Late Triassic."
"Thus the poor Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, a shadow of its former self, now has to send cheesy postcards emblazoned PRESIDENT TRUMP’S CORONAVIRUS GUIDELINES FOR AMERICA, as if the stable genius himself had been the one to figure out the lessons learned from the 1918 viral pandemic, or from the intact public-health infrastructures of Hubei, China, Daegu, South Korea, and Singapore. Treading a thin line between the supposed “socialism” of civil service and the desperate necessity for coordination, the Trumpian cult masks the failure of government to care for its population (what Foucault so brilliantly imagined governmentality was for). That institutionalization of care (the so-called nanny state) is what the right-wing most fears."
"Thus the poor Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, a shadow of its former self, now has to send cheesy postcards emblazoned PRESIDENT TRUMP’S CORONAVIRUS GUIDELINES FOR AMERICA, as if the stable genius himself had been the one to figure out the lessons learned from the 1918 viral pandemic, or from the intact public-health infrastructures of Hubei, China, Daegu, South Korea, and Singapore. Treading a thin line between the supposed “socialism” of civil service and the desperate necessity for coordination, the Trumpian cult masks the failure of government to care for its population (what Foucault so brilliantly imagined governmentality was for). That institutionalization of care (the so-called nanny state) is what the right-wing most fears."
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