Human Intervention
Christopher Hurtubise
I was raised as a Roman Catholic. While I left the church at an early age I attended a Jesuit high school. It was in bible study that we were taught that Divine intervention doesn’t exist. Not that prayer can’t help a person, but God isn’t listening to opposing high school football players to determine which team will win.
Generally, I avoid talking about religion and politics with friends, otherwise I wouldn’t have any friends. My atheist friends like to say that no God would allow his children to live like they do on earth. Childhood cancer, cystic fibrosis, stroke…. How could he allow the holocaust, killing fields in Cambodia, or war in general?
Until recently more research dollars were spent on male pattern baldness than on a cure for Malaria.
Malaria, combined with tuberculosis and malnutrition/starvation account for 5 million deaths yearly. That is the equivalent of losing every human in Canada and Cuba every ten years.
When Covid-19 arrived, people who know me as a retired pharmacist stated they didn’t believe in the vaccine because it was developed so quickly. “Quickly”? I asked. You consider 20 years quick? See, covid has been on our radar for decades, just that this variant we weren’t prepared for. Though a lot of research had been already laid as a foundation. OK, but that new type of vaccine, what about that? You mean the technology we’ve been using in animals for two decades? They still found the quickness suspect and thought China released this on the world.
If China did that, wouldn’t you expect them to have had the best vaccine in the world and pre-vaccinate their population protected? Instead, they had one of the worse vaccines.
The US had one of the best, but did not share it worldwide like Jonas Salk did with the polio vaccine.
Why the difference? My theory is a simple one. Both male pattern baldness and Covid can reach the boardroom. Funding wasn’t an issue.
On route to a rally before he was elected president, Ronald Regan saw a UFO He talked about it once to one reporter but was advised not to talk about it as it could cost him votes. While at a summit meeting, he said to Mickail Gorbachev; “Imagine if one hostile UFO came to earth how quickly the world would unite!
There are about 2,000 cases of malaria in the US yearly, not enough to scare the boardroom. Boardroom members don’t worry about malaria, tuberculosis or hunger. But they should. If we allow a disease to continue and mutate, it could be devasting worldwide, and not just in countries that don’t have resources we need.
There are over 1,000 types of mosquitoes, yet only 3 carry the malaria virus.
Remember Ronald Regan’s quip about UFOs? Now replace UFO with malaria, childhood cancer, stroke….
If we as a species put our egos aside and got together and shared our research, we have the resources and technology to conquer most of our ills.
It is not God that allowed the killing fields in Cambodia, the holocaust, cancer, … It is us as a species not working together.
The next time there is a catastrophe, don’t send thoughts and prayers, send checks and letters. Checks to research facilities, letters to your state representatives demanding more medical schools, research facilities, and global cooperation.
