Closed System: Origin of the Specious

WHY MAJOR IN BIOLOGY?

If you thought, working as a legal staffing specialist, temporary staff attorney, or senior paralegal, that your law degree was worthless, even if your mom can beam proudly saying, "My son, the attorney," what do you think is the baccalaureate degree that finds the highest level of underemployment, or graduates working far below their education? You may be thinking philosophy, or even one of those drama majors serving you drinks at the bar or waiting on your table at a restaurant, but, it's actually a "STEM" major that finds over 60% of females in the college major, accounting for 12% of associate degrees, and 6% of bachelors degrees, amongst the top in awarding doctorate degrees, but only finding about two percent going on to graduate study. By statistics, that crazy person in your class trying to figure out there problems through self study in psychology probably should have done some due diligence homework, because graduates in that major find a 39% underemployment rate, the highest of any major, followed closely by biology majors at 35%.

Yet, when the Virginia Department of Health offer 1,300 positions as front line, day one critical task in a pandemic trace contact follow up specialists, a job performed by 1,800 teams of at least five epidemiologists in China at the beginning of the outbreak, a total of over 6,000 resumes were accepted, of whom Mohammed Norman Oliver, a graduate of a college that requires no college entrance exam, could only find a total of 168 to take jobs earning up to $75,000, about $12,000 more than an entry level biology major job, and you didn't even need a degree to do the job, according to the specifications, just preferably have some familiar with some medical terms, but, a priori, a bubbly personality with some multicultural background.

So, now it is likely that, as an adult who voted thumbs up for "science" and "making a plan", despite requiring a cartoon to inform you where the entrance to your upper respiratory tract was located, have volunteered to be a pin cushion guinea pig for experimental modified RNA treatments to trigger an immune response at the interferon level, another experimental therapy, to prevent infection from a less than five percent infectious pathogen that WHO told you at the beginning was not a communicable disease, and for which your vaccine was made possible through legislative provisions that told you that COVID-19 was an effect of being a victim of a biological weapon attack. And, now, you have been told that the scientists that now enjoy their highest approval ratings in years, want you to come back for another shot, because, even though they promised a two year guarantee to FDA, even their three stage clinical trials could only promise a hope that the experiment might work for two months, notwithstanding what the Navy knew about sailors being reinfected in Guam in under two months.

Or maybe you are an atheist praying for the end of the pandemic, or an anti vaccine person, pinning hopes on "herd immunity", unaware that if you have no antibodies to prevent any type of infection, in herd immunity you only enjoy the reduced probability of being infected through a herd effect.

But, don't despair because even all that science knows, and continues to debate about viruses, they only discovered in the past two decades, and, even though, in science, we know that from nothing a big bang created the universe, and life began in the seas, finding tiny living cells evolving into more complex creatures that became amphibians and reptiles, crawling up on to the lands, which eventually advanced into birds and mammals, would you believe that science still has no idea how, in this evolutionary theory, the most abundant biological particles in the world, viruses, came into origin? And we have a pandemic with a coronavirus, the largest family of viruses, and the largest in mass, but have no idea how those particles ever evolved, but can spin a tale about zoonotic evolution that you and your understanding of science accept on faith as gospel. And, over a half million Americans are dead. Alrighty then.