Covid control conspiracy crisis
The majority of the world population when faced with Covid had
grown up with every advancing medical science. Just a hundred years ago before
antibiotics, when so many conditions could not be ‘cured’ only nursed people
would be astonished to look forward to hospitals and medicine today. Meanwhile
science and technology opened up so many things that we (at least in the
richest countries) could barely imagine living without.
I don’t like the idea of dividing populations into generations (I
am a late Gen x-er apparently), the post war generations, baby boomers, whilst
fearful of the abuse of science (nuclear bombs) largely saw science as positive
and hopeful, that it will in time have all the answers. In the move away from religion
was there a trend to see science as the new faith?
Well in the new millennium doubt came into the faith in science.
We started to wonder more often whether what can be done should be done. Not that the question was never asked before,
but the voices got louder. At the same time we face the limits of science and
medicine – antibiotic resistance, few answers for the dementia that more people live
long enough to develop – and the implications of our previous technologies on
the climate.
So now we move on from the proclamations that ‘God is dead’ to ‘Science
is playing God’ and adverts that used to see someone in a lab coat as
reassuring to a mindset that scientists are playing with fire and not to be
trusted.
Enter a pandemic and a time when there
is a need to follow guidance, and listen to the science. 2020 populations are
used to deciding for themselves, and whilst most of us may follow the guidance as
our choice to care for the community and limit the spread etc, others rebel
against anything. This is magnified in the USA where the faith related
anti-science was already more widespread, and then the vaccines…
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