Chapter 485 Illustration of the Spread of the Epidemic that Is Killing the Tower Spirit (Bugfield Leader Adds 4 Updates)
Gretel held his chin and sighed.
To a certain extent, it is true that disease outbreaks mainly originate from poor environments - there are certainly benefits to making the environment cleaner. But when it comes to ensuring environmental sanitation and clean air to eliminate diseases, vaccination is of no use...
Alas, mankind has gone through too many detours on the road to medical research.
He was still organizing his words, and people in the row of seats behind him were already raising their hands impatiently. After getting permission from the host, the man stood up from the back of his chair and asked as his first sentence:
"What is your name, sir?"
Gretel turned his head slightly and saw that the spokesman was about thirty years old, burly, with a small silver shield-shaped badge hanging on the chest of his white robe, probably only half a finger long - okay, God of War Priest.
Look at the man in front of him again. He is thin and elegant, and the tortoiseshell glasses on the bridge of his nose are a bit unsightly. Obviously to take the civilian route, you'd either be a spellcaster or a scholar.
However, in this case, if there is no mage badge or priest mark on the chest, does that mean you are a scholar? It makes sense that the Ares Priest doesn't know the scholar...
Just as he was thinking about it, the person who initially said that "vaccination is useless" had already pushed up the rim of his glasses and replied proudly:
"Charles Clayton. My views on diseases have been discussed in detail in my humble work "On Epidemics". As for vaccines, I have just finished writing and have not yet published "A Study Concerning the Smallpox Vaccine". This aspect was also elaborated on.”
As he spoke, he pushed a pile of pamphlets beside him. A clerk from the conference hall had already come forward to take it and distribute it around. The Ares Priest glanced at ten lines, then raised his head:
"Mr. Clayton. You just said that disease outbreaks mainly originate from harsh environments. However, a few years ago, Master Nordmark's "Research on Several Epidemic Pathogenic Bacteria" has proved that the main source of plague outbreaks is Due to the massive proliferation of pathogenic bacteria. Regarding this, Mr. Clayton, how do you explain it?"
"..." Gretel lowered his head silently, pretending that he didn't exist. By the way, the feeling of being suddenly Cued by such a person at the scene is inexplicably shameful...
Alas, if he were the Ares Priest, he would certainly not use germ theory as an argument. Sure enough, Mr. Clayton said proudly:
"Hard environment and pathogenic bacteria are not in conflict. The dirtier the environment, the more pathogenic bacteria can breed in large numbers. But conversely, germ theory cannot explain all plagues - what is the pathogenic bacteria of smallpox?"
"Well……"
The Ares Priest was at a loss for words. In the row in front, Archmage Grom threw a psychic link over and asked Gretel secretly:
"What is it?"
Grete pursed her lips and shook her head silently. Smallpox virus is not a bacterium. It is hundreds of times smaller than a bacterium. How do you want me to explain the concept of "virus" to you?
Either get me the electron microscope, or at least get the bacterial filter!
After filtering the bacteria, it can still be transmitted, which proves that "there is a pathogen that is much smaller than bacteria, but can still cause illness"!
There is obviously an answer, but I can't explain it. It's a grievance!
——Oh, wait, in this world, we still need to prove that it is pathogens that cause diseases, not some kind of magic...
Fortunately, in the ensuing verbal battle, the Ares Priest was slightly better. He took Grete's thick medical record book and swung it with the record that "after vaccination with cowpox, smallpox cannot be transmitted", perfectly refuting the argument that "vaccination is useless".
After refuting Mr. Clayton, I retreated step by step, so I could only jump to the next question:
"Then, the vaccine harms the human body and increases the risk of syphilis infection. What do you say?"
"this……"
The Ares Priest was stunned. A vaccine, since it is a vaccine, must first make people sick. As for syphilis, this...
He has never heard of this!
Gretel coughed lightly and took over the conversation:
"According to our research, the infection with syphilis is not due to vaccination with cowpox, but because the needle carries one person's blood and is directly inserted into the skin of another person without adequate disinfection."
His voice was loud and he looked around:
"So we have been strictly controlling the vaccination process, one injection per person, and never sharing needles. All injection equipment must be recovered and sterilized at high temperatures before they can be used again."
As soon as he finished speaking, there was a gentle discussion in the conference hall. Behind him, he took out ten gold coins, or one gold coin. The vaccinated gentlemen looked at each other, nodded, and whispered:
"Yes, the syringe I was given was put into the box immediately and was not taken out again."
"It's the same one I've used."
"The needle I used is also——"
Gretel smiled slightly and raised his voice:
"So, Mr. Clayton, do you have any examples of people who contracted other diseases simply because of vaccination with cowpox, not because of needle contamination?"
I thought you didn't!
Sure enough, Mr. Clayton sat down. Gretel just breathed a sigh of relief when another person stood up opposite and made an impassioned speech:
"Nevis is a free city! Forcing everyone to be vaccinated deprives free people of the right to dispose of their own bodies, causing them to lose the civil rights they originally enjoyed in a free country!"
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What the hell?
Gretel, who was born under a red flag in her previous life, has to think about it before she can understand the twists and turns involved. Are you kidding me? There are always a group of vaccines that are compulsory!
From BCG and hepatitis B vaccines 24 hours after birth, to polio vaccine and diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis vaccine at two to three months, to meningococcal meningococcal vaccine, measles vaccine and Japanese encephalitis vaccine in June, July and August. As soon as the baby is born, parents will receive a booklet to remind you to vaccinate your child on time——
Do not hit?
No one will impose a fine or go to jail if you don't pay the fine. However, if your child wants to go to kindergarten or elementary school and has no vaccination record, go and get the vaccination first!
Vaccine freedom?
Is it okay not to fight if you want?
It doesn't exist. I thought it was those foreigners who were stupid and took the vaccine for granted - oh, I forgot, there is indeed a group of foreigners here.
Damn it, they are all equally stupid!
Grete sighed deeply, completely unwilling to meet the other person. He tilted his head, held his chin, and listened to the red-bearded man opposite:
"Only when individuals follow their inner wishes and act freely can they promote social progress! Obviously, so far, what the state has done is what individuals can do; interfering with this will restrict and hinder personal development and affect social progress! "
"The vaccination bill tramples on the people's wish to be free from disease, and the action is completely counterproductive!"
"Compulsory vaccination is a tyranny of the government trying to dominate an individual's body! It violates everyone's freedom!"
Freedom, freedom, freedom. Allowing freedom is equivalent to the chaos seen in Western countries in the face of the new coronavirus epidemic in previous lives - Grete finally couldn't bear it anymore:
"Sir, do you think freedom has no boundaries?"
Redbeard was stunned. Gretel didn't know him, but judging from his clothes and the order of his conversation, he guessed that he was also a scholar. Since you are a scholar, you cannot speak too unconscionably in public. He was stunned for a moment:
"Of course not entirely. A person's freedom, at least, cannot infringe on others..."
"But the freedom of not being vaccinated is infringing on others." Gretel stood up, bowed slightly to the host, and then saluted to the audience on three sides:
"Everyone, regarding the process and speed of the plague's spread, I have a piece of evidence here, and I apply to present it to the hearing."
There was another wave of excitement in the auditorium. When the host saw several temple representatives and noble representatives nodding slightly, he immediately raised his gavel and banged:
"Permission to show!"
Gretel patted the space bag, took out a square wooden plate two feet long, one foot wide, and three inches deep, placed it on the long table in the middle, and took out a bag of white balls with a diameter of one inch, and poured it down. :
"Look, these balls are normal healthy people. Now, several people have contracted smallpox. We all know that smallpox can be contagious-"
Grete grabbed a few white balls, rolled them in the toner next to them, and threw them back to the wooden plate. The white ball rolled twice and soon turned several nearby balls black. Of course, his right hand was also stained with toner, and he had to use a cleaning technique to clean it off.
There was a squeak behind him. Someone whispered:
"So stupid... Since you are a magician, you should use a more elegant method..."
Grete tried hard to pretend not to hear and ignore it. grace? I also want to be elegant, but I can’t be elegant!
In fact, when he sought the help of Archmage Grom in order to design this exhibition plan, he encountered the same doubt:
"Can't you use magic?"
"Well, I also want to try using magic..." Gretel smiled and applied for the usage time of the tower spirit:
"Well, it's better not to invite Mr. Hermoncrus. Are there any reserve tower spirits who haven't been installed in the tower yet? Can you please request one to come and help?"
"It's not that troublesome! It's just a small problem. If you don't want to go to the Tower Spirit of Babel Tower, just go to the Black Crow Swamp!"
"It's better to be cautious..."
Gretel and the Archmage fought against each other again and again, and finally won. Archmage Grom relied on two connections to borrow a reserve tower spirit. Archmage Grom was still muttering beside him:
"Are you still afraid of ruining the tower spirit? You can really spoil the tower spirit. I will pay for the tower spirit's money for you!"
Gretel: →_→If I weren’t afraid of something happening, I would randomly throw in a barber’s paradox and let him calculate it, and I’d blow it up for you in a minute!
Of course, business matters now. Gretel watched the Archmage manipulate the tower spirit and temporarily connect the energy pool of the magic tower. He thought for a moment and began to command:
"First project a light curtain. How big or small is it? A grid of 1000 by 800 will do."
"Okay." The tower spirit, which had not brushed the character template and was still in the initial settings, agreed and weaved a light curtain in the void. Gretel gave the next command:
"Generate 100 small balls with random positions..."
"What is random?"
"Well……"
Gretel started pulling at his hair. What is random? This is a really good question, especially when you want to explain it to a tower spirit - or, in other words, an artificial intelligence...
"You use coordinates to confirm the position of the ball - take any value from 1 to 1000 in the horizontal direction, and take any value from 1 to 800 in the vertical direction to determine the position of the ball No. 1. The rest of the balls can be deduced by analogy. If and If the previous ball is repeated, then give up this value and start again..."
The light screen flashed, then flashed again, and soon the first ball appeared. Then, No. 2, No. 3, No. 4... appeared one after another. Within a few breaths, 100 small balls were scattered across the entire screen.
"Okay - now, mark the balls 1 to 5 as black, let all the balls roll and collide randomly, as if a hand is shaking them on the plate - the white balls that collide with the black balls become Black, and then dye more balls black…”
"Excuse me, how do you roll randomly? How do you bounce back after a collision?"
"Random rolling - you divide a circle into 360 degrees, forget it, 36 degrees, choose any direction, and then let the ball roll at a random speed between 1 and 10 frames per second. After the collision, the rebound How? Assuming that the two sides collide elastically, that is, neither loses kinetic energy, then the speed and direction of dispersion after the collision should be..."
Gretel started writing formulas with his head down. Fortunately, okay, I have learned the relevant content in the medical physics class, and I can still recall the formulas...
The light curtain flashed gently, as if the tower spirit was also trying to learn, understand, and apply the formula entered by Gretel. After a while, 5 black balls and 95 white balls started beating wildly. Soon, there was a strange clicking sound inside the tower, and a wisp of black smoke curled up.
Gretel's quick eyesight and quick hands activated the shield technique.
Uh...random rolling and collision seem to be too difficult for Talling...especially to handle the rolling and collision of 100 balls at the same time. Even if friction is not considered, the calculation amount is too large...
Or is my programming ability too poor? Obviously in the previous life, there were masters who wrote programs and made more complex demonstration animations. We also need to consider different R0, different incubation periods, onset periods, and death times...
Gretel, who was playing with the backup tower spirit, did not apply for the main tower spirit of Black Crow Swamp or even the tower spirit of Babel Tower to do a simulation demonstration. So, he could only stretch out his hands, each holding one side of the wooden plate, and shook it hard:
"Now, these people work, live, study, play, move around, and have a high chance of coming into contact with each other——"
The black ball stained the white ball. The dirty ball collided with other clean white balls and soon became black again. Gretel shook it back and forth dozens of times, his vest was hot and his head was sweating. He simply sat back, flew up a few enhanced mage hands, and shook the wooden plate.
Not long after, out of the 100 white balls in the wooden tray, seventy or eighty were stained with a layer of dirty black ash.
"Look, if everyone is likely to get smallpox, then in a pandemic, so many people will be infected in the end. Then let's take a look at what will happen if some people have been vaccinated against cowpox and will not get smallpox again. Sample?"
He collected the dirty balls and poured down 80 white balls. He took out another transparent and smooth glass ball and held it high:
"Look, everyone, this glass ball has been processed and will not be contaminated with toner. Let's use it to simulate a person who will not get smallpox. Let's try it again -"
Of course, the processing process is very troublesome and the accuracy cannot be achieved in any case. Finally, a transformation mage was used to add cleaning skills to these glass balls, giving them the ability to self-remove toner. This needs no special explanation...
Gretel dropped 20 glass balls and shook the wooden disk again. It was obvious that the white balls became dirty much slower.
Grete kept reducing the white balls and adding glass balls. When there are only 20 white balls and as many as 80 glass balls, it is obvious that it takes a long time of vigorous shaking by the hand of the mage before even one white ball is stained by toner.
"Very intuitive." The host smiled in appreciation. Grete nodded in thanks, and applause erupted from small to large in the auditorium.
"So, promoting universal vaccination is for each of us and for the health of our loved ones - do you have any questions?"
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4000 words!
Successfully completed an additional update!
However, I did not succeed in writing this scene... I will continue tomorrow...
ps, I consulted with several big guys today and they all said that Talling will definitely crash^-^