(Not sure if it would be good for my psyche to find out lots more about parasites--especially about just How? omnipresent they are.)
Then add-in the many pounds of microorganisms inside us, jot down some worldwide numbers (maybe those were in Life on Man?)
...sprinkle with essence of Jewel Wasp and
.
.
. run screaming from the room; choose IV-feeding Only and ponder that, 'we' are Never Alone
(nor may we count-on being in-charge of our alleged-own machinery, on any given day.
Gaea must be a Sadist, I say!

Gently prised a tick from one of the cats, the other day. Confirmed I had Not broken off its ugly little head, as it tried to walk away.
It resides in a 10 ml vial in the freezer (in case there should be {sigh} symptoms..) So far so good.

Thanks-I----think; not Nice to realize that the regal, 'We are not amused' is, merely literal :-/

BUT: Does this absolve our kleptocracy and its legions of gullible, infested-Supporters ... from their Crimes?
I say Nope; can fight Crime on only one scale-of-abstraction at a time.

(People who have never seen the little book, which opens with an aerial view of a couple having a picnic on the grass.. each page being magnified by 10X,
from atomic nucleus to--the pair--to the size of known-universe (that finite-but-unbounded Thing):

Ain't got no Scale and Relativity (or, with the Jewel Wasp: any sense of the Recursive.)