Once, when the kids were walking in the yard, some passer-by said unpleasant words: "In the near future there will be no a cough medicine."
In this seemingly simple phrase, an unpleasant subtext was felt.
Friends became worried, stopped rotating a pedals of velosimulators and surrounded Senya.
The question was flying in the air: 'But should we talk to this passer-by in more detail?'
One of the friends showed a flexible thinking.
He took a matchbox from his pocket, wrote the words 'A cough medicine' on the box, and handed the box to Senya.
A silence was, at first.
Then a question was heard:
- "Such a medicine can to cure somebody?"
The counter-statements were also put forward immediately:
- 'A medicine never acts the same on all patients!'
- 'It's one thing to design a medicine and announce this achievement, and it's quite another thing to produce it and start using it in practice!'
- 'Cough is a variable disease! The cough medicine is also changing. After the first variant should be the twentieth, the thirty-fifth ... Very quickly no one will be interested in the question of the effectiveness of the first version of the medicine! '
After hearing all the arguments, Senya summed up the discussion:
- "Developing a drug and the announcing its existence is one thing. And a drug efficacy is the absolutely another topic. '
Friends respectfully looked at Senya. The medicine already exists! It is already in a pocket!
But Senya proposed a more far-sighted algorithm (to get around unpleasant people while a turning).
The main dude for development of a cough medicine was appointed. The dude will look in the microscope for two months, he will draw up a research report, and then an announcement will appear on the existance of a new cough medicine (and, at the same time, against coronavirus).
After compiling a scientific report, unpleasant statements will become difficult. Studying a report in itself requires a time, an attention (and an access to the text of the report). And events will go forward, leaving a report somewhere far behind - in the past. And science - it always goes through errors, mistakes and misconceptions - to achievements and discoveries!
Friends were delighted. New times are coming. Detailed conversations with unpleasant people who make ambiguous statements are an outdated practice. Need to work ahead of the curve! To act with modern methods!
The main dude responsible for the development of a cough medicine went to look in a microscope and to write the first page of a scientific report.
Friends returned to the velosimulators and continued to rotate pedals.
Senya walked around the sports field and periodically looked at the matchbox with the inscription 'A cough medicine.'
'... To keep healthy, People, fulfill a hygienic wipings! " The song created the right mood.
May 17, 2020 07:22
Translation from Russian into English: May 17, 2020 08:21.
Владимир Владимирович Залесский 'Сеня и лекарство против кашля. Рассказ'.