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| DATE | 2020-10-14 |
| FROM | aviva
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| SUBJECT | Re: [Hangout - NYLXS] National Geopgraphic on Science,
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On 10/14/20 6:29 AM, Ruben Safir wrote:
> Imagine, for the sake of argument, that the epidemiological curves I’ve
> obsessed over all year ultimately play out in our favor, and we can
> return to some semblance of normal. Imagine that effective treatments
> are found that make COVID-19 short-term and curable for just about
> anyone. Imagine that a vaccine is developed soon and that a significant
> portion of the world population gets it. If all that happens, why
> wouldn’t we emerge from this with a greater appreciation of the
> scientific enterprise in all its messy brilliance?
>
> I try to hold on to that hope, despite the catcalls of politicians and
> “personal choice” zealots who second-guess everything the scientists do.
> I try to tell myself that sometimes our better angels prevail. And that
> there’s an army’s worth of better angels—scientists, educators, doctors,
> nurses, public health advocates—who, since that eerie image of the spiky
> coronavirus started haunting our collective dreams, have been working
> tirelessly toward a happy ending.
>
> That’s the ending I’m trying to believe in, where we emerge from this
> with a renewed appreciation of science as humanity’s best chance of
> salvation from suffering and untimely death.
The author is an idiot.
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