Araucaria araucana: Is DNA a Language? * * And like Anders Tegnell in Sweden, is Tony Fauci helping to develop idea-wise the Covid-19 pandemic USA public health RESPONSE affecting California too (in its uniqueness)? ... (Mention of Fauci and Francis Collins by George Church * AND AS NEWSPAPERS IN ALL COUNTRIES LEARN TO COMMUNICATE WITH EACH OTHER in this genetic revolution which I teach about ... * ... So in what ways could Covid-19 be IDEOLOGY as well as a way to jumpstart genetic engineering for in case of emergency bio-warfare preparedness even? * * Sharing some thinking too ... can WUaS create 7.8 billion You at WUaS avatar bot electronic medical records for further genetic and genealogical research for everyone ? :) And is genetics a lAnguage which we could even add to 1 #RealisticVirtualEarthForLanguages - https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1205542500720447488?s=19 - and interoperate with a Universal Translator re all 7117 known living languages ? :)

Can @WorldUnivAndSch create 7.8 billion #AvatarBotElectronicMedicalRecords for further genetic research for everyone & is GENETICS a LANGUAGE which we could even add to 1 #RealisticVirtualEarthForLanguages - https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1205542500720447488?s=19 - & interoperate with #WUaSUniversalTranslator?

Can @WorldUnivAndSch create 7.8 billion #AvatarBotElectronicMedicalRecords for further genetic research for everyone & is GENETICS a LANGUAGE which we could even add to 1 #RealisticVirtualEarthForLanguages - https://t.co/pXI6kPoTn0 - & interoperate with #WUaSUniversalTranslator?
— WorldUnivandSch (@WorldUnivAndSch) December 11, 2020

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1337466304844853248?s=19

https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1337465748667523072?s=19

https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1337469219487633410?s=19

https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1337469149841256448?s=19

Good morning, Ma,

Some further thinking (and glad to be in the SF BAY AREA) ... RE genetics revolution (which I teach about in one of my courses) ...

http://worlduniversityandschool.org/InfoTechNetworkSocGlobalUniv.html ...

Besides the in case of emergency scenario, or fire drill, I'm hypothesizing, for Covid-19, & the cleaning up scenario, or get the cat back in the Bag' - with many now in a form of media generated self-quarantine - I wonder too whether some of the getting the cat back in the Bag' (sexuality?) - speculatively - could have emerged from this conference ...

"Biogen conference in Boston likely linked to as many as 300,000 COVID-19 cases worldwide, researchers say

A new study says COVID-19 cases linked to the conference at the Boston Marriott Long Wharf hotel in February were found as far away as Australia, Slovakia, and Sweden, as well as in 29 US states"

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/12/10/nation/biogen-conference-boston-likely-linked-330000-covid-19-cases-worldwide-researchers-say/

... And could Biogen also be a company in industry of excellent genetic engineers which could make significant advances in aging reversal ? See Biogen picture here -

How soon will we see an #AgingReversal #WUaSAgingReversal drug announced like thishttps://t.co/tH41ozOQaH above flux of the vote counts of the #USNationalElection ? Develop in & Publish from a single #RealisticVirtualEarthForGenetics ?https://t.co/YTWR9g4gQz @WorldUnivAndSch ~
— WUaSPress (@WUaSPress) November 4, 2020

https://twitter.com/WUaSPress/status/1324037741248565248?s=19

How soon will we see an #AgingReversal #WUaSAgingReversal drug announced like this

https://t.co/tH41ozOQaH above flux of the vote counts of the #USNationalElection ? Develop in & Publish from a single #RealisticVirtualEarthForGenetics ?https://t.co/YTWR9g4gQz @WorldUnivAndSch ~

https://twitter.com/WUaSPress/status/1324037741248565248?s=19

(Same - https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1324038233202724864?s=19 )

And like Anders Tegnell in Sweden, is Tony Fauci helping to develop idea-wise the Covid-19 pandemic USA public health RESPONSE affecting California too (in its uniqueness)? ... (Mention of Fauci and Francis Collins by George Church

"top health officials, including Dr. Francis S. Collins, the director of NIH, & Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, the top infectious disease specialist, questioned whether the data was sufficient."https://t.co/Tt23rDJ6m2
— george church (@geochurch) August 28, 2020

https://twitter.com/geochurch/status/1299307307319336960?s=19 ) ... as well as re getting Biden into office and Rump out ? (See this recent Finnish headline article:

"Four dangerous years for The United States" ...

https://www.helsinkitimes.fi/columns/columns/viewpoint/18414-four-dangerous-years-for-the-united-states.html) AND AS NEWSPAPERS IN ALL COUNTRIES LEARN TO COMMUNICATE WITH EACH OTHER in this genetic revolution which I teach about ...

... So in what ways could Covid-19 be IDEOLOGY as well as a way to jumpstart genetic engineering for in case of emergency bio-warfare preparedness even?

This just appeared as headlines on "The Daily News" Dagens Nyheter (Sweden) and possibly regarding protecting children even

Photo: Magnus Hallgren / DN / TT

"Karolinska cancels child surgery

The staff must staff the covid care • Emergency procedures will be carried out."

https://www.dn.se/sthlm/karolinska-staller-in-alla-barnoperationer-nar-personal-flyttas/

re Covid-19 as ideology possibly too, and even somehow protecting kids; see the 2nd Hypothetical News' item here from 4/1/20 - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/04/himalyan-monal-how-are-harbin-hot.html?m=0

Some of the above is scary stuff in an age of genetic engineering with genetic and social side effects ...

Sharing some thinking too ... can WUaS create 7.8 billion You at WUaS avatar bot electronic medical records for further genetic and genealogical research for everyone ? :)

And is genetics a lAnguage which we could even add to 1 #RealisticVirtualEarthForLanguages - https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1205542500720447488?s=19 - and interoperate with a Universal Translator re all 7117 known living languages ? :)

Love, Scott

Ma,

Jane Metcalfe in SF who sent this email is a friend and colleague of MIT/Harvard's Genetics' Professor George Church's ... ...with this article ~ Is DNA a Language? ...

https://neo.life/2020/12/we-call-dna-a-language-is-it/

So I ask in a Tweet ...

Can @WorldUnivAndSch create 7.8 billion #AvatarBotElectronicMedicalRecords for further genetic research for everyone & is GENETICS a LANGUAGE which we could even add to 1 #RealisticVirtualEarthForLanguages - https://t.co/pXI6kPoTn0 - & interoperate with #WUaSUniversalTranslator?
— WorldUnivandSch (@WorldUnivAndSch) December 11, 2020

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1337466304844853248?s=19

https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1337465748667523072?s=19

https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1337469219487633410?s=19

https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1337469149841256448?s=19

Love, Scott

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"We Call DNA a Language. Is It?

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By Luke Shors

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Having the complete sequence of the human genome is similar to having all the pages of a manual needed to make the human body.

–National Institutes of Health’s Human Genome Project Completion Report, 2010

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