"if any man be a worshipper of God, and doeth his will, him he heareth" - Being Young and Not Obese: the Key to Conquering the Corona-Pandemic

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Being Young and Not Obese: the Key to Conquering the Corona-Pandemic

To suppress corona-viruses, T cells generated in bone marrow and led to the thymus for further development play a key role.  (However, in the process of development, 95% of T cells are cast out as disqualified in the thymus.)  Aging of the immunity system, which decreases immunity of our body, is mostly ascribed to aging of T cells.

(https://www.researchgate.net/post/T_cells_hidden_immunity_against_Covid-19_What_do_you_think)

The thymus becomes the largest when one is at teenage.  The amount of newly produced T cells in the thymus at one's 40s is one hundredth of those produced in his newborn period.  Accordingly, immunity by T cells at one's 70s decreases to 10% of the level in its prime around the age of 2 years.   The degree of this decrease is larger in "naive T cells" than in "memory T cells" with memory of past viruses.  Therefor old people are vulnerable to new viruses they have never experienced.  

However, calorie restriction is effective for prevention of atrophy or contraction of the thymus caused by aging.  Calorie restriction is generally known to have effect for prevention of aging of mammals.  It suppresses fatty change in the thymus, leading to prevention of naive T cell decrease due to aging and thus strengthening the capacity to resist infection.

Corona-viruses response to T cells through a process similar to that of HIV viruses.  Therefore patients with less T cells need to be taken to early emergency medical care.

So, it is no wonder that the U.S. with many obese persons has many victims of corona-viruses among old people.   Being young and not obese is the key to conquering the corona-pandemic especially in America.  

Especially, calorie restriction seems necessary for old men so as to have a small appetite.  Specifically, it is recommended since the glycolytic systems using energy taken from foods lower their activity in old men but the mitochondrial systems using oxygen come to play a major role in energy generation in their bodies.  So, it is natural for old men to come to have a small appetite, because they can get energy from mitochondria in their cells rather than from foods. 

Christ Jesus must have modified His body so that His body could take more energy from the mitochondrial systems of His body than the glycolytic systems needing foods when He was tempted by Satan in wildness for 40 days.  As a result, He must have been able to travel across Palestine taking few foods. 

So, Christ Jesus said that the body surpassed foods.

Do not think about what you want to eat! 

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John 9    King James Version

29 We know that God spake unto Moses: as for this fellow, we know not from whence he is.
30 The man answered and said unto them, Why herein is a marvellous thing, that ye know not from whence he is, and yet he hath opened mine eyes.
31 Now we know that God heareth not sinners: but if any man be a worshipper of God, and doeth his will, him he heareth.
32 Since the world began was it not heard that any man opened the eyes of one that was born blind.
33 If this man were not of God, he could do nothing.

"This kind can come forth by nothing" - 2001, 2008, 2020, 2060, and the 22nd Century

 

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2001, 2008, 2020, 2060, and the 22nd Century

This is the third time that the United States is on alert socially as a whole in the 21st century.  The first was the Islamic terror in 2001, and the second was the subprime loan-triggered financial crisis in 2008.  Finally the U.S. is facing the corona-virus pandemic in 2020.

However, the underlying causes are not addressed completely.  Islamic terrorists have bee active in the Middle East, Africa, etc.; Wall Street companies have been pursuing their profit based on worship of money; and China has no intension to respect democracy and freedom while generating corona-viruses.

They symbolize the major factors threatening the world in the 21st century: religious conflicts generating fanatical believers, devastating greed linked with capitalism, and fight for leadership among major countries (especially between Western countries and the block of China and Russia).

The disillusion to the war on terror and the caution to Wall Street companies allowed for realization of the first black President in the U.S.  Then, reaction occurred in the American society with the emergence of Trump, a dubious billionaire real estate agent and TV personality with racial bias in entertainment programs who claims he has achieved the American Dream.  And, finally, corona-viruses were generated in China starting to openly pursue hegemony in the world to spread in the world and kill a million people in the whole world and 200,000 Americans.     

Put simply, in the 21st century, the U.S. must address the challenge from Islamic extremists whose backgrounds include the gap between rich Christian and Jewish world and the poor Islamic world, the gap between the rich and the poor in the U.S. and other Western countries under capitalism, which can cause devastating financial catastrophe, and anti-democratic counties such as China that can even generate a virus-caused pandemic.

These challenges cannot be addressed by simply electing a black President such as Obama.  And, it must be impossible to fully settle them by electing Biden supported by liberals as president.

In 2001 and 2008, 200,000 Americans were not killed and a million global citizens were not killed.  But, this 2020 corona-virus pandemic is expected to kill a half million Americans and globally 3 million people till it will be subdued probably in the middle of 2021.  This pandemic must eventually trigger WWIII like the 2018 Spanish Flu became a prelude to Great Depression, the rise of Hitler, and WWII.

Since it looks impossible that the mankind can completely suppress and eliminate the possibility of emergence of viruses 10 times or more harmful than the present ones in the future, it can be estimated that the mankind face the collapse of their civilization, the danger of their extinction, or the end of the world in WWIII caused through conflicts among the Christian and Jewish countries, non-democratic China and Russia, and anti-Jewish Islamic countries in great global financial debacles and more fatal pandemics in the 21st century as Isaac Newton predicted that the end of the world might start around 2060.       

Indeed, this 2020 corona-pandemic seems to be a prelude to the more critical crisis, such as WWIII, that will happen in this century.  How will historians in the 22nd century describe the history of the 21st century even if they exist?

For example, they may write: the Son of the God appeared 2000 years after Abraham, and the mankind faced the end of the world 2000 years after they had executed the Son of the God, even if any historians, who might be robots, should exist in the 22nd century.  

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Mark 9    King James Version
28 And when he was come into the house, his disciples asked him privately, Why could not we cast him out?
29 And he said unto them, This kind can come forth by nothing, but by prayer and fasting.
30 And they departed thence, and passed through Galilee; and he would not that any man should know it.
31 For he taught his disciples, and said unto them, The Son of man is delivered into the hands of men, and they shall kill him; and after that he is killed, he shall rise the third day.

"Thou son of David, have mercy on us" - Mercy of the God or Amitabha Buddha to Save People from the Corona-Pandemic

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Mercy of the God or Amitabha Buddha to Save People from the Corona-Pandemic

Almost 800 years ago, when the political power was about to shift from the imperial court to a samurai regime in Japan, some unique and notable Buddhist monks appeared, establishing their own schools or versions of Buddhism.

One of them taught that people should concentrate on Buddha or specifically Amitabha Buddha to be saved in this world under control of Satan.  For this purpose, he said that people should just call the name of Amitabha Buddha and ask the deity to save them.  "People should just rely on mercy of Amitabha Buddha to be saved and allowed to enter into the paradise but should not rely on their efforts," he taught.  He asserted that believing in salvation of one's soul by Amitabha Buddha and calling its name was the only way for him to be saved in this corrupted world.

One might acquire enlightenment to be saved through long-term hard learning and rigorous ascetic training, but it is only possible for rare excellent saints such as the Buddha.  Such severe conditions should not be requested or expected to be fulfilled by ordinary people most of whom are poor and not highly educated.  Therefore, ordinary people should abandon their desperate efforts to enhance their levels in understanding truth of the life and the world as well as the paradise and the hell, in order to have their souls saved and allowed to go to the paradise.

Some Buddhist denominations built on such a creed are still active in Japan today.  

The teaching that good people can be saved because even bad people can be saved through calling the name of Amitabha Buddha is the core of their teachings.  According to such a school of Japanese Buddhism, no good deeds, study, training, etc. are useful and effective for one's souls to be saved.  Any man that calls Amitabha Buddha, relying on and trusting in its mercy can be saved and welcomed into the paradise.

It is a kind of anti-elite movement.  When the imperial court was losing political power, which had lasted for centuries, and samurai clans were gaining momentum with their military strength in the Japanese society 800 years ago, people were involve in big turmoil, conflicts, and attrition as well as various natural disasters, famines, etc.  Dead bodies were sometimes left even in streets and river banks of the capital Kyoto at the time of a civil war or a famine.  Buddhism that had been supported, managed, and diffused by the imperial court became useless to help and save ordinary and poor people and, especially, farmers.  Therefore, new schools of Buddhism came to be widely accepted by people around the 12th century of Japan.

Their teachings resemble some Christian principles written in the Bible.  However, the Bible stresses that love is the most important factor among faith, hope, and love.  The Bible ultimately declares that whoever calls the name of God for help can be saved.

For example, when one is suffering from corona-viruses, one's learned wisdom, scholarly achievements, past good deeds, social status and even wealth are useless.  One can and should only rely on mercy of the God or Amitabha Buddha.               

  

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Mat 9:26 And the fame hereof went abroad into all that land.
Mat 9:27 And when Jesus departed thence, two blind men followed him, crying, and saying, Thou son of David, have mercy on us.
Mat 9:28 And when he was come into the house, the blind men came to him: and Jesus saith unto them, Believe ye that I am able to do this? They said unto him, Yea, Lord.
Mat 9:29 Then touched he their eyes, saying, According to your faith be it unto you.
Mat 9:30 And their eyes were opened; and Jesus straitly charged them, saying, See that no man know it.