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deadly, and occasionally more both sides drives change and
specific. Outbreaks were held to a
low boil, swatted down as soon as adaptations, keeping the living
they appeared. Constant world in an adversarial balance.
surveillance, tracking, and action
were the keys, rarely needing to It isn’t all Strum und Drang
resort to quarantine or the between the single and multi-cells
dreaded hand-washing with soap
and water. organisms. Many species adapt
and became symbiotic with their
Sexually transmitted pandemics hosts, the single-celled colonies
were shamed and poisoned into quietly living and even helping,
submission. Wars would bring out changing the chemistry with their
sexual disease spikes, but enteric
and zoonotic diseases, washed pee and dead cells to ward off
into the trenches, made the sexual newcomers.
disease outbreaks appear as a
humorous side effect. We all become populated with
our families’ selected colony
Infected rodents always gave a
thrill to an active PanYear, both in population, through the birth
war and peacetime, but cats, plant canal or the environment. Mostly
extracts or pied pipers would good, sometimes bad, and
rapidly knock down those little occasionally interesting when
shockers and the fleas they
carried. alcohol-based yeast colonizes and
pees in some poor souls’ stomach.
This constant battle between
the single-celled, multi-homed The fight continues, each
and the encapsulated multi- seeking a balance on this wet,
cellular organisms never seems to salty planet. There are still a few
end Darwinian selection from
billion years to continue this
battle. One can only imagine the
outcomes.
specific. Outbreaks were held to a
low boil, swatted down as soon as adaptations, keeping the living
they appeared. Constant world in an adversarial balance.
surveillance, tracking, and action
were the keys, rarely needing to It isn’t all Strum und Drang
resort to quarantine or the between the single and multi-cells
dreaded hand-washing with soap
and water. organisms. Many species adapt
and became symbiotic with their
Sexually transmitted pandemics hosts, the single-celled colonies
were shamed and poisoned into quietly living and even helping,
submission. Wars would bring out changing the chemistry with their
sexual disease spikes, but enteric
and zoonotic diseases, washed pee and dead cells to ward off
into the trenches, made the sexual newcomers.
disease outbreaks appear as a
humorous side effect. We all become populated with
our families’ selected colony
Infected rodents always gave a
thrill to an active PanYear, both in population, through the birth
war and peacetime, but cats, plant canal or the environment. Mostly
extracts or pied pipers would good, sometimes bad, and
rapidly knock down those little occasionally interesting when
shockers and the fleas they
carried. alcohol-based yeast colonizes and
pees in some poor souls’ stomach.
This constant battle between
the single-celled, multi-homed The fight continues, each
and the encapsulated multi- seeking a balance on this wet,
cellular organisms never seems to salty planet. There are still a few
end Darwinian selection from
billion years to continue this
battle. One can only imagine the
outcomes.
