Re: apologies for ignoring your request as it appeared a little insolent..but.. Archived Message
Posted by Willem on September 1, 2020, 9:57 pm, in reply to "Re: apologies for ignoring your request as it appeared a little insolent..but.."
Whether and to what extent the developed world's reductionist, Cartesian metaphysics of nature and science play a role in its pandemic policies or in people's response to them might be an interesting philosophical/social question, but it doesn't bear upon the more practical matters of how serious the disease is or what the most rational policies to deal with it are. How could it not bear upon this? Of course it does. People (especially the pampered ones) need air-conditioning when it gets a little too hot, central heating when too cold, reach for tablets when they have a headache, buy sprays to protect them against insects, spread creams and lotions against the sun -- there's a very long list like that. So when the suggestions started that to tackle covid we need lockdowns/masks/social distancing to avoid other people's possible viruses, it didn't take much for people to believe that's what they need -- despite the fact that most didn't see or hear of any cases directly. The people of the world are becoming conditioned in thinking that nature is a nasty creature that must be continuously fought against.
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