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We begin with sick or dead people. How we explain why they got sick or died cannot rest on a pre-assumption of a metaphor of something called {virus} {spread}. If we accept the explanation within the very paradigm where the events took place, we reinforce the set of virus>disease, which already presuppose a vaccine and the practice of immunization as the pre-conditions for make both virus and disease as operative concepts to launch a political event of a pandemic.

Even if we assumed that viruses were a thing, heterogeneity of physical populations and environmental conditions cannot physically produce one and the same effect of clinical illness as they are encoded then in morbidity and mortality. There cannot be a pandemic as a physical event even for that one reason.

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