Is Antimatter the real wealth?

It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver – Mahatma Gandhi.

Even thought the above two words, gold and silver, of the statement of Mahatma Gandhi should be replaced by the word "antimatter" which is roughly around 1750 trillion USD per ounce, it is worth arguing the question, what is real wealth. As for my opinion Mahatma Ghandhi was perfectly right which is also said by lord Buddha 2554 years back in a different manner, "Arogya parama labha, santhutti paraman danan".

Common cold is one of the diseases which is less lethal, but severe in returns. Viral Upper Respiratory Tract Infection (VURTI), the common cold, is a viral infection as it is stated there in its scientific name. It has many symptoms including runny nose and pink eyes which are physically observable facts along with the cough and fever sometimes. The normal average lifetime of the cold is roughly around 7 to 10 days which is subjected to extensions if not properly manged. Common cold must be clearly distinguished between other influenza like diseases which involves lungs whereas common cold does not. This is said to be the most frequent infectious disease among humans.

According to the sources there are about 200 viruses which causes the common cold and this viruses spreads in many different ways including through the air. When there is a person who has a common cold near by it increases the probability of people around him/her getting it.

Mentioning about the painful side of common cold, it simply just totally stop your work. With a runny nose nobody would be able to carry out the routine work as usual or else to to be exposed to dust. Third world countries like ours naturally has high amount of carbon dioxide and dust particles in air rather than in other countries. This might be an positive factor for the increased frequency of the common cold in Sri Lanka. And the other factor pink eyes would not let you work. Specially for the activities such as reading, driving and computing, gaming this will have a very negative effect.

When a normal working person is considered, with his/her routine the most probable reason for the common cold would be the careless management of the disease. As for my view it is again a problem with no solution i would say. Spending the day inside an air conditioned office, breathing the air which is artificially altered, bathing late which will eventually makes water to be deposited on the head for a long time, will make the situation a lot worse but not better.

The most important piece of information which made me to write this article is "There is no cure".

We live in an era where people are getting ready to sit back and relax at home letting machines to do work for them. We live in a world where man produce genetically altered living organisms. We live in a world where man basically do everything he wish for. But still no medicine for viral infections. It is worth discussing the reasons for this and probable solutions for the above matter.