Viruses

They may be smarter than we are or they may just have excellent survival skills, but viruses of one sort or another are eluding our best defenses.

Their skills are tantamount to a plan to evade our emergency plans. Variants and new found “pox” threaten us. We find a vaccine, they slip past it.

Signs of intelligent life? Perhaps these little bits of biologics really do have the brains to outwit humankind? Perhaps….

Or more likely, we’ll just do ourselves in. Here at home there’s the semi-conductor bill that can’t get out of the Senate and would put us at a real disadvantage in a conflict with China.

Globally, there’s climate change that has us warming to the point of overheating. Everywhere.

Dysfunction and inefficiency, autocracy and the quick march behind totalitarian regimes can all do so much damage.

Those little “bugs” don’t have to work so hard at undermining after all.