Forced by the ravages of 2019-nCoV, I recently chased an American drama-"The Last Ship"
The plot always has inevitable bugs, but the setting of the story is still possible.
A "scientific maniac"-Niels based on his scientific enthusiasm that is not understood by the world and ethics, through polymerase chain reaction, man-made editing and modifying the gene fragment of a new unknown virus that uses birds as carriers , And spliced its own human immunoregulatory genes with viral genes. The original intention is to help the human immune system recognize the virus and then produce antibodies to achieve the goal of human immunity to the virus. (Like the news of He Jiankui of SUSTech in 2019 about the world's first immunization of AIDS gene-edited twins, as well as the big news and everyone's pride at the time, thinking carefully.)
The result of the experiment was the outbreak of a global super plague, and humanity was almost extinct (4 billion people died). Because he implanted his genes into the virus, and then injected the virus into his body, making him a Patient Zero of the virus, and a "super "bacterial" spreader" immune to the virus. . Wherever he went, as long as he breathed a sigh of relief, the corpses would spread across the fields and there would be no grass.
Of course, this "initiator" is not the protagonist of the film. At the beginning of the film, Dr. Scott and his assistant Quincy traveled to Antarctica on the guided guided missile destroyer "Nathan James" to search for the "primitive strain" of the virus from polar birds and use it to develop a cure for the virus infection. Vaccine.
Why look for "original strains"?
Because new viruses are more infectious and lethal after being implanted in human genes, the most difficult thing is that the virus is constantly mutating, has super adaptability to the new environment and is extremely clever to use camouflage to deceive the human immune system. It is necessary to have the original strain as a reference for comparison, find out the edited fragments, and combine the gene fragments that can recognize humans to develop an antidote (of course, in the natural state, a small number of people are naturally immune to the virus). It also greatly promoted the development of the follow-up plot.
Having said that, none of the above is the point!
The highlight of this film lies in the various tortures of "humanity", the test of "trust", the thinking about "information transparency", and how to An experiment to re-establish "order".
The torture of human nature is embodied in: 1. In order to prevent the spread of the virus, a certain country used nuclear bombs on the people and wiped out 60 million people in one go (Of course, as a patriotic youth, I deeply think this is a deliberate smear by the American emperor!) 2. Russian navy generals surrounded and intercepted destroyers with the intent to snatch vaccines and dominate the world; 3. A certain successor of the American presidential female president indiscriminately exercised discretion and social Darwinism, and adopted humanitarian and concentrated destruction of those deemed "useless" Burn it, and take concentrated brainwashing education for the "useful" to ensure the so-called "order" and stability (abbreviated as "stability maintenance"); European fanatic terrorist groups survived because of their innate virus immunity, so they promoted the so-called "chosen people", formed heretics, and actively infected survivors to screen out other natural immunes, and then formed cliques. Intent to dominate...
The test and thinking of trust and information transparency are reflected in: 1. Between the captain and the chief mate; 2. Between the destroyer’s core management and 300 naval crews; 3. In order to obtain clinical trials, the 6 volunteers tested and Between Dr. Scott. Oh, that's not right! It's 7 people! Because one of the volunteers found out that he was pregnant during the experiment...
The test of order establishment is embodied in the ruins of apocalypse, integrating key elements such as opinion leaders, resources, information, rules, etc., to ignite hope, restore confidence, and build consensus mechanisms and choices...
Combined with the current real social situation, this film looks even more interesting.
Whenever widespread disasters and disasters occur, we can always see dregs emerging, mourning the people's livelihood and the difficulties and misfortunes, but at the same time they are always "angered and indisputable." In the play, in front of my eyes, recently, "mutual harm", "people's wisdom", "system", "truth", "national system", "self-correction mechanism", "centralization", "stupidity", "destruction" Wait for the nouns to have a deeper understanding and thinking.
Science has no ethics, but science without ethics is destructive. So, is "gene editing" the devil in the bottle or Noah's Ark?
"The only lesson mankind draws from history is that mankind never learns a lesson."
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