Natural Disasters cannot be prevented with Man Made Interventions

Natural disasters cannot be prevented with man made interventions. How do we stop a volcano from erupting? A tidal wave from coming ashore? Earthquakes? Hurricanes and tornados?

How do we stop ecological devastation and (what is said by experts to be) the 6th Mass Extinction? The argument is "we created this, we can stop it". This makes some sense until we ask the question: 

Is human behavior itself a natural phenomena?

We humans tend to see ourselves as separate from nature because of technology. But is it true? Certainly not in terms of "big nature" (volcanos, hurricanes etc). Or even true in terms of "little nature"? (Pandemics, heart disease, cancer). Not really, but we prefer to live in a state of delusion regarding little nature.

Pharmacology is the quintessential example of this. How might we be deluded relative to pharmacology? Pandemics might be an example. 

It is said by the majority of expert epidemiologists and virologists that viral pandemics spread with the suddenness and rapidity of a Tsunami coming ashore. Developing technological interventions takes time, at that point natural immunity and population immunity has spread sufficiently to reduce "pandemic" to "endemic". If that weren't true our species would have ceased existence in it's very early stages.

But we don't think of that, and this is part of the delusion.

By the time we've identified a viral disease of pandemic proportion, and then developed the intervention, natural individual and community immunity have been developing. Do the technologists who develop the interventions calculate what percentage of the intervention was actually caused by nature's community immunity? If they do we haven't heard about it. And anyway, what fun would that be? How could we smugly pat our selves on the back if that were the case?

The delusion we humans are so fond of is we are separate from nature, and even above nature.

Let's take the very recent example of the pandemic into account. It's now been publicly admitted by health authorities the intervention did not stop infection or spread. It is still said total deaths were reduced, but earthquake sized fissures in that narrative have formed, although not yet publicly acknowledged.

That one will perhaps never be acknowledged. Think of all the political negatives the destruction of that particular delusion would create: loss of faith in public health authorities and politicians, not to mention the trillions in future profits up in smoke.

Health care is the single biggest source of revenue for the US: if we think the economy is shaky now, what would we think if a significant portion of national revenue disappeared?

"Trade-off" is also a formal economic term. What should we call the trade-off of population health for economic "health"?

Tragic? Stupid? At the very least a contradiction in terms, and in the worst case skating down the slippery slope toward implosion.

Loss of faith in public health authorities? I think that horse is already out of the barn. What can be done about that?

Take control of your own health, it does not come out of drugs (legal or otherwise), bottles, boxes, packages or pills.

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