If there is one principle I have actually followed all my adult life, it’s this: flatten the curve.
As a teenager, I spent 2 years at a monastery in Japan’s Kumamoto prefecture, discovering the White Lotus School of Zen-Wushu. My instructor was the excellent Kittaka Waradada, a disciple of the famous Pei Mei. You might have seen Pei Mei in a famous Hollywood movie whose name I’m forgetting. It was Pei Mei who developed the Five Point Palm Exploding Heart Technique, utilizing which you can flatten the curve of an opponent’s life line with a single deadly blow delivered to the heart.
It is something to flatten the curve of an unethical human’s life line, and another to flatten the curve of an amoral infection’s infections and goals. One of the first things you learn in Zen-Wushu is that no animal in deep space is redundant, or as Kittaka-san would say, dispensable.
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The virus desires the very same thing you do: a life of significance. It does not wish to pass away thinking its presence has actually been meaningless. And unique coronaviruses, Kittaka-san tells me, are more ambitious than their predecessors such as H1N1. They have the resilience, psychological toughness, and the 7 routines of extremely efficient viruses. That’s how they have the self-discipline to lie low and infect a variety from a single hos