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Originally Posted by bitontheslide
When society doesn't intervene then it defaults to nature and the natural laws apply with regard to something like a virus - the strongest/healthiest survive. At the moment what we are basically seeing are the laws of nature and us (at the moment) futilely trying to fight against it. All these things are an equilibrium. We are adjusting to a knew equilibrium and we really have no experience of adjusting to such a fundamental change.
We pay lip service to social care, but it really is nothing more in the scheme of things. I think we will go now full pelt to one extreme or the other ... proper social care, or none at all
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Indeed, I think a level of hubris developed throughout the 20th century where we (as a species) started to believe that our technology had more or less conquered nature; that there was no natural problem that couldn't be solved "with enough science".
We now seem to be being shown repeatedly that this was very much wrong. Oceans full of plastic that we can't clean up, climate change that we're unlikely to get under control, and desperately trying to get a virus under the thumb when realistically it's very unlikely to happen.