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Archived on 6 September 2020 at 9:00pm [URL redacted]
@JaquelineJentzsch [name pseudonymized] [ontology] [03]: 🇶 Wannabe... wannabe... wannabe #Woke? 🇶 Back-to-nature... no #Fracking? 😱We can freeze in the dark as #BlackPlague rolls over us. 😱#Fauci goes full pseudoscience: #COVID19 is due to "extreme backlashes from nature" - The Mass Illusion [URL redacted] [URL redacted]
"Fauci and his coauthor appear to be taking the position that human dominance over nature is a bad thing, one that is sure to result in future catastrophes. That could be true when it comes to subjects such as advanced military weaponry (high powered nuclear bombs), but the paper completely ignores the fact that human innovation has allowed for our lifespans to double since the mid 19th century. Additionally, it's not as if deadly pandemics are only a recent issue. The Black Death, which took an estimated 75-200 million lives, occurred 400 years before the Industrial Revolution, and none of the pandemics of the 21st century have had a significant negative impact on global health. COVID-19, which has had the most sophisticated tracking program in pandemic history, has still registered fewer than 1 million reported deaths worldwide. Human innovation has allowed for a more sanitary lifestyle, and this has undoubtedly reduced the impact that pandemics and climate events may have had on our lives. Fauci's seeming embrace of the degrowth movement makes no sense, from a human health perspective. Rolling back human progress and becoming 'one with nature' would make humans *more* susceptible to pandemics, not less."
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