Coronavirus, a vaccine will need collaboration between scientists

I WAS in the audience in the aula magna of the university of Milan Bicocca, while Fabiola Gianotti told the path that had led him to “see” you in the face for the first time, the Higgs Boson, thanks to the performance of the particle accelerator in Geneva, and to the tenacity of researchers, guided precisely by a scientist at the Italian. During the discussion, someone asked how many were members of the team that had given up the hunt for the particle. “Ten thousand,” said the director-general of Cern. Therefore, braccare for years and then finally find a ghost, infinitely small and elusive, had requested the collaboration of twenty thousand eyes. Perhaps only two less than they would pre-empt the efforts of all.

it is Not a hyperbole, our species is how it works, all its advances are linked to such attitude. We advance only when we are situated in the furrow of destiny cooperative, and we stop thinking only of ourselves. This is not a concession, more or less romantic to the community bodies, the fact is that we are very fragile when compared to members of other species, from the body structure much more promising as ours, and we have no hope if we turn away from the behaviors responsible for our good fortune. But if we decide to act, each for its own account, not risulteremmo unsuccessful only with respect to animals are physically more imposing, or to certain natural events, a creature small as the Coronavirus may have the better of us.

that is why it is necessary, especially in these times, enhance your own party solidarity by giving a portion of our instances of individualistic . It takes deeds of trust. If scientists and those who decide in the collective interest, require us to adopt a particular behavior preservation, it is not necessary that we immediately understand the value, but it is important that we follow the directions. Not always what is useful that it includes at the moment, especially if you don't see an immediate advantage, we are good at understanding an indication only in the moment in which they touched our individual interests. Many mothers tell amused that the war of the toothbrush with the children you truly win only when you come to the first morosina or the first boyfriend, when the washes go from zero-day to a number exaggerated. Even us, adults, we are so, maybe not for the toothbrush, we need to measure the personal benefits of a behavior before incorporating it into our daily habits.

Today the coronavirus show to be a opponent abundantly within our reach, but only on the condition that he / she is allowed to undermine our system of selflessness, relying on the fears that are triggered when we are faced with threats from less known ones that make us fear of suffering of abandonment (the fear of disease and death is part of this group), or of losing our positions, the ones that give us the certainty of being someone.

the true strength of The coronavirus is not in the sequence of its Rna, but rather in the ability to make us lose confidence in our genius, social. One-on-one wins him. The world's scientific community will win soon in this comparison, given that it is a pathogen, very infectious but not too lethal, but to win well, and in a hurry, we must not inflict damage to our cooperative nature, because we the true soldiers of this dispute, those who decide the outcome. A positive outcome, already written, all in our favour, the which times however it can become very frequent if we act by reminding us that if we came out from the caves we owe it to these sublime inventions of the human race, the division of tasks and cooperation, which would then resulting evolution more and more refined, such as the participation, i.e. the capacity to feel what happens in the minds of our fellow human beings and do our, and the affectivity or the tendency to try and exchange emotions and feelings.

these Are the only steps by which the Coronavirus can creep in, the holes open in the fabric of community from the fear and the resulting behaviors of selfish. Defending our health is not never coincided so much with the defense of one of our neighbors, we are facing a test on the field of the human vocation the most high, that the co-operative, the Coronavirus itself can be a vaccine that is colossal and the unexpected, to re-enable that social feeling that over the millennia there had helped to mitigate the selfishness and will to power, taking us where we are.

back from one Of my frequent business trips, usually short or very short, while svuotavo the backpack on the desk of my study, I realized that I forgot to switch of the power strip electrical, a circumstance which had taken advantage of a bug, installatasi on its small surface area to capture the minimum heat that is emitted from the led. I could solve the problem fast, instead I was struck by the unexpected cooperative effects of my forgetfulness. Perhaps in part due to my age, that I tilt a little to the melancholy, I came to think that the insect was intent in something that they tend to make all living beings, including me. Arrive in the evening with full stomachs, in good health and in a warm place where you can spend the night. There was therefore no reason to disturb the harmless insect, on the contrary, his well-being, that stemmed from my actions, although unintentional, I gratificava and I gratificava because this is the effect of any altruistic behavior. This is our nature, “to feel” the needs of the other and understand the value. Any action of this type generates progress, no matter how big, because it will be the sum of each thrust in the direction of altruism to move the bow of the ship.

we do Not allow a life form so basic, this is a virus, sbalzarci out of our destiny, on the contrary, we take advantage of its threat to remind ourselves that the interpretation more and more the exploits of the social feeling is responsible for the enormous wounds inflicted on the whole Planet and therefore our health.

* psychotherapist and author of the book "The superconnessi"

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