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    As Simple as... A B C
    As Simple as... A B C
    As Simple as... A B C
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    As Simple as... A B C

    By Cuger Brant

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    The book starts with a little education as to the facts about you, society, and your safe little place in it.
    until a nightmare knocks at your door!
    As Coronavirus seems to have abated, what has nature next in store?
    A virus has no soul, no conscience, no compassion, and will take no prisoners.
    It does not care if you are rich, poor, famous, or humble.
    You are just be a host for its continued expansion and survival.
    Just what would you be prepared to do... for yours?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCuger Brant
    Release dateJan 16, 2011
    ISBN9781458174468
    As Simple as... A B C
    Author

    Cuger Brant

    I am a philosophical psychologist with a twist of comedy; as far as you are concerned, I am either a madman or have a point.My little stories mean to stretch your imagination and your awareness. I hope they give you pleasure, food for thought, and change your perception about you, your world, and your safe little place in it!I sincerely hope that, if you read my books, they are not what you were expecting!Author Note:A word about my writing, facts, and study material: Trust me when I say; I get all my facts right before I put pen to paper; this gives me the privilege to distort them as much as I please with a clear conscience.All political or religious connotations are fictitious; offense taken by oneself or on behalf of another is by personal choice!

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      As Simple as... A B C - Cuger Brant

      As Simple as ABC.

      © Cuger Brant 2021

      Published by Smashwords ISBN: 978-1-4581-7446-8

      Cuger Brant asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work.

      All rights reserved under International and Pan American Copyright Convention. By payment of the required fee, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on screen.

      A catalogue record of this book is available from the British Library

      No part of Cuger Brant’s stories may be copied, transferred, downloaded, printed either in part or whole without the author’s express written permission.

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      About the Author…

      I write as a philosophical psychologist with a twist of comedy; as far as you are concerned, I am either a madman or have a point.

      My little stories mean to stretch your imagination and your awareness. I hope they give you pleasure, food for thought, and change your perception about you, your world, and your safe little place in it.

      I sincerely hope that, if you read my books, they are not what you were expecting.

      *******

      Author Note:

      A word about my writing, facts, and study material: Trust me when I say; I get all my facts right before I put pen to paper; this gives me the privilege to distort them as much as I please with a clear conscience.

      All political, religious etc. connotations are fictitious; offence taken by oneself or on behalf of others is by personal choice.

      *******

      This book has the following feature which can be accessed on you reader settings if supported by your device:

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      Stories by Cuger Brant…

      As Simple As ABC

      Clone

      Of Mirth and Men

      End Game

      Fecundity

      RDD

      The Good Shepherd

      In Denial

      Soulmate

      Perambulations in Our Time

      The Haggis

      EMP

      Melodie’s Secret Book of the Fey, Charms and Spells

      *******

      As Simple as ABC

      The virus

      When is a life form, not a life form? When it is a virus!

      To be a good virus, it needs several essential attributes. Firstly, it should be easily transmittable (Bird Flu, Swine Flu) mutated into a human form, may well be examples. In other words, it needs to stay in its host long enough to survive the immune system, to grow, and then be passed on to another host.

      Secondly, it does not need to be too virulent. If it is, it will kill its host before it has time to be passed on.

      Thirdly, it needs the right conditions, like a highly populated area or an easily traversed area from population to population. The twenty-first century will do nicely, with its super-fast transport system.

      A virus is, basically, a tiny bundle of genetic material, either DNA or RNA, carried in a shell called the viral coat, which is made up of pieces of protein. Some viruses have an additional layer around this coat called an envelope.

      That is basically all there is to viruses.

      Viruses are strange things that straddle the fence between living and non-living. On the one hand, if they are floating around in the air or sitting on a doorknob, they are inert. They are about as alive as a rock.

      But if they come into contact with a suitable host cell, they spring into action. They infect and take over the cell, like terrorists hijacking a plane.

      Viruses exist for one purpose only: to reproduce. To do that, they have to take over the reproductive machinery of suitable host cells.

      Upon landing on an appropriate host cell, a virus gets its genetic material inside the cell either by tricking the host cell into pulling it inside, as it would a nutrient molecule or by fusing its viral coat with the host cell wall or membrane and releasing its genes inside.

      Its genetic material then inserts itself into the host cell’s DNA. The viral genes are then copied many, many times, using the machinery the host cell would typically use to reproduce its own DNA.

      The virus uses the host cell's enzymes to build new viral capsids and other viral proteins. The new viral genes and proteins then come together and assemble into whole new viruses.

      The new viruses eventually build up

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