Today’s “Phrase of the Day” is fool’s errand and it is a phrase meaning “an unsuccessful task/activity; an useless undertaking; an ineffective effort; a hopeless job”.
Example Sentence: The major infectious disease threats in humans tend to come from animals: think of Sars-CoV-2, Sars, Mers, Ebola … the list goes on. There are more than a million viruses circulating in the animal kingdom, and it would be a fool’s errand to try to stop that circulation. But we can limit the chances these have to jump into the human population, and limit their circulation in domestic animals. This requires taking the animal-human interface seriously, and knowing that while it’s a major economic, animal welfare and farming problem now,…
This phrase is present in Bird flu is a huge problem now – but we’re just one mutation away from it getting much worse and click here to read it.
Courtesy: The Guardian
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